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The failure of capitalist production

Kliman Andrew

The failure of capitalist production Underlying causes of the Great Recession - London Pluto Press 2012 - 240P xiii PB

Business Cycles - Financial Crises - U S A Capitalism - Rate Of Return - Recessions Global Financial Crisis - 2008 - 2009

Contents
List o f Tables viii
List o f Figures ix
List o f Abbreviations xi
Acknowledgments xii
1 Introduction 1
2 Profitability, the Credit System, and the “ Destruction
o f Capital” 13
3 Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: Dot-com Boom and
Home-price Bubble 28
4 The 1970s— N ot the 1980s— as Turning Point 48
5 Falling Rates o f Profit and Accumulation 74
6 The Current-cost “ Rate o f Profit” 102
7 W hy the Rate of Profit Fell 123
8 The Underconsumptionist Alternative 151
9 W hat is to be Undone? 181
Notes 208
Bibliography 227
Index 234

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