Michael Andrew Žmolek
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Deadline Extended: Call for Book Chapters: “Contradictions in Policy and Politics in the PRC”
In the outpouring of new literature on the rise of China, there is a strong tendency to attribute
China’s growth trajectory to its embrace of neoliberal market principles, downplaying not only
the still preponderant role of the state but also of the CCP. This edited volume will seek to explore
the political economy of China by exploring the many apparent contradictions that have led it to
this point, thus necessarily taking a dialectical approach to such questions as:
• Has China se...
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Date limite prolongée: Appel à chapitres de livre : “Contradictions dans la politique et la politique en RPC”
Appel à chapitres de livre : "Contradictions dans la politique et la politique en RPC"Dans l’effusion de la nouvelle littérature sur la montée en puissance de la Chine, il y a une forte
tendance à attribuer la trajectoire de croissance de la Chine à son adhésion aux principes du marché
néolibéral, minimisant non seulement le rôle encore prépondérant de l’État mais aussi...
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延长期限：征集书籍章节: “中国政策与政治的矛盾”
要想从中国政治经济学发展过程中的诸多明显矛盾中去探究其政治经济学，有必要对以下问题采取辩证的方法：
• • 中国是否在一条独特的增长轨道上？ 如果是，所谓“北京共识”的特征是什么？ 哪些技能
它可以是独一无二的吗？
• • 资本主义的软肋是波动性：周期性危机可能很严重。 中共是否找到了克服周期性危机的更好方法，
或者中国是否有可能在某个时候经...
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Tribute to George C. Comninel
August of 2022 brought the passing of George Comninel, a dear colleague and friend. As I did not make the celebration of his life held last month in Toronto, I wrote the following tribute, which was shared in written form at the event. George served as the acting supervisor of my dissertation project from its earliest inceptions in 1993-1994 down to its completion in 2008. During those years, the wealth of knowledge which George shared with me is difficult to describe. I will have more to say in...
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Call for Book Chapters: “Contradictions in Policy and Politics in the PRC”
Vernon Press invites book chapters for a forthcoming edited volume on the subject of “Contradictions in Policy and Politics in the PRC.”
Decades of unprecedented growth have launched China to the status of a world power, but China’s economy appears to be facing strong headwinds on many fronts. Given the preponderant role of the CCP in both economics and politics, it has been suggested not only that China defies traditional analyses which turn on the state/private dichotomy, but also th...
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Current Work
A contribution to a debate originating at the London HM Conference in 2019 has been published under the title: ‘On “The Problem with Brenner”: The Paradox of Agency and the Heresy of Reification’ in Historical Materialism 29, (Fall 2021).
A paper I gave at the 2020 European Studies Conference at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, October 2-3 titled ‘The Banker Who Ate His Money: Enclosures, Economic Reductionism and the “Corn Model” of David Ricardo’ has recently been published as part of the conference proceedings. This was my fourth of five papers presented at the ESC and a theme has developed out of these papers which I hope some day to turn into a book on enclosures and Political Economy. Previous ESC papers have included: 'Market Dependence, Market Imperatives and the Making of Industrial Capitalism in England’ (2017); ‘Adam Smith as Theorist of Agrarian Capitalism’ (2018); 'The Dark World of Reverend Malthus' (2019); and ‘Blood from a Turnip: The Failure to Apply Laissez-Faire in France, from the Physiocrats to Say’ (2021).
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 Michael Andrew Žmolek teaches World History, International Studies and Development Studies at the University of Iowa. His book Rethinking the Industrial Revolution (Brill 2013; Haymarket 2014) explores five centuries of English/British history and is part of a broader effort to understand the nature and origins of capitalism. He is currently part of a team writing a world history textbook for Cognella Publishers and is preparing the growndwork for an archival collection on capitalism and the long ninetenth century for Routledge. Mike received a BA in Linguistics and a Certificate of African studies at Iowa before going on to complete his PhD in Political Science at York University in Toronto, where he served as an executive of the Graduate Students' Association for four years. As a legislative assistant in Congress, his work focused on addressing the plight of Gulf Coast survivors of Hurricane Katrina and on drafting articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for representatives Cynthia McKinney (GA) and Dennis Kucinich (OH). As an activist he has worked on the campaign to abolish apartheid in South Africa; opposing tuition hikes for students in Canada; and opposing the bombing, sanctions and military occupation of Iraq.
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