Adam Smith in Beijing. Lineages of the Twenty-first Century Adam Smith in Beijing: origins and foundations of the 21st century

Abstract

Just as Tronti had detected fundamental discrepancies between the European ideological commitment to Marxism and the relevance of American working-class history to an adequate interpretation of Capital, Giovanni Arrighi seeks to analyze an equally fundamental discrepancy between the Western ideological commitment to free market and the development of China for an adequate interpretation of The Wealth of Nations. To paraphrase Tronti, Arrighi seeks to meet Smith in Beijing.