Business as usual :: the roots of the global financial meltdown /

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 mor...

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Weitere Verfasser: Calhoun, Craig J., 1952- (HerausgeberIn), Derluguian, Georgi M. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : New York University Press, ©2011.
Schriftenreihe:Possible futures series ; v. 1.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780814772799
081477279X
9780814723555
0814723551

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