World In Crisis

Marxist Perspectives on Crash & Crisis
Herausgeber: Carchedi, Guglielmo; Roberts, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The most comprehensive empirically based defense of Marxâ s law of profitability as the cause of Capitalist crises.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 153mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9781608461813
• ISBN-10: 1608461815
• Artikelnr.: 51142383

Autorenporträt

Gugliemo Carchedi, doctorate (1965) in Economics, University of Turin, Italy, has worked at the United Nations in New York and has taught at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of numerous articles and books in several fields of Marxist analysis and research. Michael Roberts has worked as an economist for over thirty years in the City of London financial center. He is author of The Great Recession: A Marxist View (2009), and The Long Depression (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
 
Part 1. The US economy
Chapter 1. G. Carchedi and M. Roberts – The long roots of the present
crisis: Keynesians, Austerians, and Marx’s law
Chapter 2. G. Carchedi – The law of crises
Chapter 3. J.A. Tapia – Investment, profit, and crises: theories and
evidence
 
Part 2. The international dimension
Chapter 4. E.E. Maito – The tendency of the rate of profit to fall since
the 19th century and a world rate of profit
Chapter 5. T. Sato – Japan’s ‘lost’ two decades: a Marxist analysis of
prolonged capitalist stagnation
Chapter 6. M. Roberts – The UK rate of profit and British economic history
Chapter 7.. J.P. Mateo – The Long Depression in the Spanish economy:
bubble, profits, and debt
Chapter 8. T. Maniatis and K. Passas – Surplus value, profit, and
unproductive labor in the Greek economy, 1958–2013
Chapter 9. A. Marquetti, E.M. Filho, and V. Lautert – The profit rate in
Brazil, 1953–2008
Chapter 10. M. Gaulard – The Chinese economic crisis: a Marxist approach
 
Part 3. Credit, fictitious capital, and crises
Chapter 11. M. Roberts – Debt matters
Chapter 12. S. Cámara I. and A. Mariña F– The neoliberal financialization
of the US economy
Chapter 13. M.E.G. Smith and J. Butovsky – The roots of the global crisis:
Marx’s law of falling profitability and the US economy, 1950–2013
Chapter 14. T. Norfield – Derivatives and capitalist markets: the
speculative heart of capital
Chapter 15. S. Nash – High-frequency trading: the unfolding history of
speculative capital
 
Part 4. The crisis and the euro
Chapter 16. G. Carchedi – From the crisis in surplus value to the crisis in
the euro
Chapter 17. M. Roberts – The euro crisis is a crisis of capitalism