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