An Anticlassical Political-economic Analysis
A Vision for the Next Century

This text confronts three questions facing the world at the end of the 20th century: how can harmonious stable world order be created; how can economic performance be maintained while minimizing international economic conflicts and environmental damage; and what must be done to safeguard freedom.

Murakami s anticlassical stance takes the form of a new, intellectually integrated and reasoned concept called polymorphic liberalism, which argues that traditional progressivism the belief that humans have an ultimate unique path on which they will reach an ideal social and political-economic system can no longer meet today s challenges.

Translator's preface
Translator's introduction
1. On progress
2. Nationalism and transnationalism
3. The theory of hegemonic stability: a compromise between economic liberalism and nationalism
4. The demise of the classical belief
5. An economics of decreasing cost
6. Developmentalism as a system
7. The increasing complexity of the international economy
A scenario for a new international system: the rules for polymorphic liberalism
9. Developmentalism, heterogeneity, and parliamentary politics
10. Understanding 'understanding'
Afterword
Notes
Index.