TY - BOOK AU - WESTRA Richard TI - East Asia in the global economy: theoretical and empirical questions for Marxism PY - 2020/// KW - MARXISM KW - EAST ASIA KW - GLOBALISATION KW - NEO-LIBERALISM KW - CAPITALIST CRISES KW - PROFIT RATES N2 - As Marxism and socialism pass through watershed years it is important to reflect on the abiding questions of Marxist theory and empirical analysis. This article takes up this task in the context of East Asia under the impetus of globalisation and neo-liberalism, introducing a collection of five articles collected in the special issue. The article shows that questions Marx posed about the global economy more than a century ago remain prescient and continue to animate cutting-edge research, as shown in the articles in this special issue UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00472336.2019.1662473 ER -