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A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crisis.
The recent financial meltdown and the resulting global recession have rekindled debates regarding the nature of contemporary capitalism. This book analyses the ongoing financialization of the economy as a development within capitalism, and explores the ways in which it has changed the organization o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge frontiers of political economy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I The long tradition of finance as a counter-productive activity in heterodox thinking: a Marxian appraisal; 1 The parasitic absentee owner in the Keynes-Veblen-Proudhon tradition; 2 Ricardian Marxism and finance as unproductive activity; 3 Is finance productive or "parasitic?"; PART II Financial innovation, money, and capitalist exploitation: a short detour in the history of economic ideas; 4 Derivatives as money?
- 5 Finance, discipline, and social behavior: tracing the terms of a problem that was never properly statedPART III Rethinking finance: a Marxian analytical framework; 6 Episodes in finance; 7 Fictitious capital and finance: an introduction to Marx's analysis (in the third volume of Capital); 8 Financialization as a technology of power: incorporating risk into the Marxian framework; PART IV The crisis of the Euro area; 9 Towards a political economy of monetary unions: revisiting the crisis of the Euro area; 10 European governance and its contradictions.
- Conclusion: a theoretical and political project for the futureNotes; References; Index.