Business as usual : the roots of the global financial meltdown /
Situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from financial exchange and credit. Much mor...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
New York :
New York University Press,
©2011.
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Colección: | Possible futures series ;
v. 1. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from financial exchange and credit. Much more basic than the result of a few financial traders cheating the system, this is a potential historical turning point. In original essays, the contributors establish why the system was ripe for crisis of the past, and yet why this meltdown was different. The volume concludes by asking whether as deep. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780814772799 081477279X 9780814723555 0814723551 |