From crisis to crisis: Capitalism, chaos and constant unpredictability

Anis Chowdhury and Piotr Żuk
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Anis Chowdhury: UNSW Canberra, Australia; Western Sydney University, Australia
Piotr Żuk: University of Wrocław, Poland

The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2018, vol. 29, issue 4, 375-393

Abstract: Far from being an event of a decade ago, the 2008 global financial crisis is a manifestation of an ongoing crisis of the world order, with social, political and ecological dimensions that cannot be seen separately from each other. The root cause of the crisis can be traced back to the collapse of the Bretton Woods System in August 1971, and the failure to design an equitable and inclusive global financial and economic governance architecture consistent with the changed global economic realities. The vacuum was quickly taken up by the neoliberal orthodoxy that pushed the agenda of wholesale liberalisation, resulting in unprecedented domination of speculative finance capital and multinational corporation–led globalisation. This has seen falling share of wages in national income, growing wealth concentration, rising income inequality and ballooning of household debts. The consequence was frequent and increasingly deeper and wider financial crises.

Keywords: Debts; global economic governance; inequality; neoliberalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 E44 F33 G01 O19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/1035304618811263

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