The Structural Crisis of Capital - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Structural Crisis of Capital write by Istvan Meszaros. This book was released on 2010-03-01. The Structural Crisis of Capital available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this collection of trenchant essays and interviews, István Mészáros, the world’s preeminent Marxist philosopher and winner of the 2008 Libertador Award for Critical Thought (the Bolivar Prize), lays bare the exploitative structure of modern capitalism. He argues with great power that the world’s economies are on a social and ecological precipice, and that unless we take decisive action to radically transform our societies we will find ourselves thrust headfirst into barbarism and environmental catastrophe. Mészáros, however, is no pessimist. He believes that the multiple crises of world capitalism will encourage the working class to demand center stage in the construction of a new system of production and distribution designed to meet human needs rather than serve the relentless pursuit of profit—a struggle which is already underway in places such as Venezuela. As John Bellamy Foster says in the foreword to this indispensable book, “Today the structural crisis of capital provides the historical setting for a new revolutionary movement for social emancipation in which developments normally taking centuries would flit by like phantoms in decades or even years. But the force for such necessary, vital change, remains with the people themselves, and rests on humanity’s willingness to constitute itself as both subject and object of history, through the collective struggle to create a just and sustainable world. This, Mészáros insists, constitutes the unprecedented challenge and burden of our historical time.”
Business as Usual
Business as Usual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Business as Usual write by Paul Mattick. This book was released on 2011-05-15. Business as Usual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The recent global economic downturn has affected nearly everyone in every corner of the globe. Its vast reach and lingering effects have made it difficult to pinpoint its exact cause, and while some economists point to the risks inherent in the modern financial system, others blame long-term imbalances in the world economy. Into this debate steps Paul Mattick, who, in Business as Usual, explains the global economic downturn in relation to the development of the world economy since World War II, but also as a fundamental example of the cycle of crisis and recovery that has characterized capitalism since the early nineteenth century. Mattick explains that today’s recession is not the result of a singular financial event but instead is a manifestation of long-term processes within the world economy. Mattick argues that the economic downturn can best be understood within the context of business cycles, which are unavoidable in a free-market economy. He uses this explanation as a springboard for exploring the nature of our capitalist society and its prospects for the future. Although Business as Usual engages with many economic theories, both mainstream and left-wing, Mattick’s accessible writing opens the subject up in order for non-specialists to understand the current economic climate not as the effect of a financial crisis, but as a manifestation of a truth about the social and economic system in which we live. As a result the book is ideal for anyone who wants to gain a succinct and jargon-free understanding of recent economic events, and, just as important, the overall dynamics of the capitalist system itself.
Crises of Global Economy and the Future of Capitalism
Crises of Global Economy and the Future of Capitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crises of Global Economy and the Future of Capitalism write by Kiichiro Yagi. This book was released on 2013-01-04. Crises of Global Economy and the Future of Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent events in the global financial markets and macro economies have served as a strong reminder for a need of a coherent theory of capitalist crisis and analysis. This book helps to fill the gap with well-grounded alternative articulations of the forces which move today's economic dynamics, how they interact and how ideas of foundational figures in economic theory can be used to make sense of the current predicament. The book presents a comprehensive collection of reflections on the origins, dynamics and implications of the interlinked crises of the U.S. and global economies. The book is a thoughtful collaboration between Japanese heterodox economists of the Japan Society of Political Economy (JSPE) and non-Japanese scholars. It provides a unique immersion in different, sophisticated approaches to political economy and to the crisis. The book illustrates with the understanding of Marx's crisis theory and how it can serve as a powerful framework for analyzing the contemporary sub-prime world crisis. The book explains the subprime loan crisis as a crisis in a specific phase of the capitalist world system and concludes that it is a structural one which destroys the existing capital accumulation regime. It pays attention to structural changes and to how these changes beget profound and controversial consequences. The result is a must-read - one which truly contributes to the resurgence of radical analyses of the political economy, free from the market optimism of the main-stream economics.
Crisis, Inequalities and Poverty
Crisis, Inequalities and Poverty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crisis, Inequalities and Poverty write by Francesco Schettino. This book was released on 2022-09-12. Crisis, Inequalities and Poverty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Crisis, inequalities and Poverty, Schettino and Clementi provide an empirical and theoretical analysis of the capitalist crisis of the last two decades with a particular focus on the impact on poverty and inequality.
Does Capitalism Have a Future?
Does Capitalism Have a Future? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Does Capitalism Have a Future? write by Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein. This book was released on 2013. Does Capitalism Have a Future? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Does Capitalism Have a Future?, the prominent theorist Georgi Derleugian has gathered together a quintet of eminent macrosociologists to assess whether the capitalist system can survive.
