The Great Recession and the Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism

Edited by Riccardo Bellofiore and Giovanna Vertova

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Abstract: The current crisis is one of the great crises punctuating the long history of capitalism, and to be properly understood it is vital to take into account its ongoing structural transformation. This book offers plural perspectives on the Great Recession, placing the analysis of finance, class and gender at the center of the debate. It begins with a comprehensive insight into the crisis, before moving on to focus on debt, asset inflation and financial fragility. Following chapters discuss global imbalances, structural monetary reform and the management of public finance, including a investigation of the Italian experience. The book concludes with novel contributions on the gender dimension of the crisis and the analogies between a nuclear and financial chain reaction.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
ISBN: 9780857938527
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The Great Recession and the contradictions of contemporary capitalism , pp 7-25

Riccardo Bellofiore

Ch 2 The crisis of the early 21st Century: Marxian perspectives , pp 26-49

Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy

Ch 3 Marx, Keynes and Hayek and the Great Recession of 2008 , pp 50-64

Meghnad Desai

Ch 4 Fictitious capital in the context of global over-accumulation and changing international economic power relationships , pp 65-82

François Chesnais

Ch 5 Conventions and disruptions , pp 83-99

Christian Marazzi

Ch 6 Debt, class and asset inflation , pp 100-111

Jan Toporowski

Ch 7 Speculation, financial fragility and stock-flow consistency , pp 112-133

Jo Michell

Ch 8 A structural monetary reform to reduce global imbalances: Keynes’s plan revisited to avert international payment deficits , pp 134-150

Sergio Rossi

Ch 9 The true rules of a good management of public finance. An explanation of the fatal Eurozone crisis , pp 151-164

Alain Parguez

Ch 10 Growth and crises in the Italian economy , pp 165-188

Vittorio Valli

Ch 11 What’s gender got to do with the Great Recession? The Italian case , pp 189-207

Giovanna Vertova

Ch 12 Financial and nuclear meltdowns: the fragility of chain-reaction critical processes , pp 208-220

Alessandro Vercelli

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