Geoff Mann

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A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism

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Produktbeschreibung

From money and markets to the subprime crisis, this anti-capitalist pocket guide explains capitalism and its crises, and suggests alternatives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AK Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 183mm x 113mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 251g
• ISBN-13: 9781849351263
• ISBN-10: 1849351260
• Artikelnr.: 35346102

Autorenporträt

Geoff Mann lives with his partner and sons in Vancouver BC. He teaches political economy and economic geography at Simon Fraser University, where he directs the Centre for Global Political Economy. His book Our Daily Bread: Wages, Workers and the Political Economy of the American West (UNC, 2007) won the Paul Sweezy Prize from the American Sociological Association and the Michael S. Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association, and his writing on capitalism has appeared in New Left Review and Historical Materialism, among other journals. His current research concerns the politics of macroeconomic policy, and he is presently completing a book on the many lives of Keynesianism.

Inhaltsangabe

Disassembly Required: Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Theories of Capitalist Political Economy: From Smith to Marx to Keynes
and After
3. Money in Capitalism
4. Markets and Firms
5. The State
6. The Long Boom and the Long(er) Downturn
7. Neoliberalism and the Rise of Finance
8. A Case Study in Crisis: 'Subprime', or the Credit Crunch
9. The Futures of the (Capitalist?) Future
What of Money?
What of Markets and Firms?
What of the State?
What of Our 'Choices'?