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Failure of capitalist production : underlying causes of the great recession /

"The recent financial crisis and Great Recession have been analysed endlessly in the mainstream and academia, but this is the first book to conclude, on the basis of in-depth analyses of official US data, that Marx's crisis theory can explain these events. Marx believed that the rate of pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kliman, Andrew, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Pluto Press, 2012.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Profitability, the credit system, and the "destruction of capital"
  • Double, double, toil and trouble: dot-com boom and home-price bubble
  • the 1970s-not the 1980s-as turning point
  • Falling rates of profit and accumulation
  • The current-cost "rate of profit"
  • Why the rate of profit fell
  • The underconsumptionist alternative
  • What is to be undone?