Business as usual
the roots of the global financial meltdown
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Author
Publication
2011 - New York University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
78,000 words, Guess
Page Count
312 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL24914995M
- ISBN-139780814772775
- OCLC Control Number692291870
- OCLC Control Numberbusinessasusualr0000unse
- Library of Congress Control Number2010052308
Classifications
- DDC330.9/0511
- LCCHB3722 .B867 2011
Description
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.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Possible futures series -- v. 1
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