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The most comprehensive empirically based defense of Marx’s law of profitability as the cause of Capitalist crises.

World In Crisis

Marxist Perspectives on Crash & Crisis

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    350 pages

  • Release Date

    9 December 2018

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Summary

Most mainstream economists view capitalism’s periodic breakdowns are nothing more than temporary aberrations from another wise unbroken path toward prosperity. For Marxists, this fundamental flaw has long been acknowledged as a central feature of the free market system. This groundbreaking volume brings together Marxist scholars from around the world to offer an empirically grounded defense of Marx’s law of profitability and its central role in explaining these capitalist crises.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781608461813
ISBN-10:1608461815
Author:Guglielmo Carchedi, Michael Roberts
Publisher:Haymarket Books
Imprint:Haymarket Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:350
Release Date:9 December 2018
Weight:545g
Dimensions:152mm x 230mm
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Critics Review

“World in Crisis presents detailed evidence from across the world, and over the long historical span, to show that the tendency does really exist, and has a clear and ultimately dominant influence in determining the general state of economies, nationally and globally.” –Counterfire

About The Author

Guglielmo Carchedi

Gugliemo Carchedi, doctorate (1965) in Economics, University of Turin, Italy, has worked at the United Nations in New York and has taught at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of numerous articles and books in several fields of Marxist analysis and research.

Michael Roberts has worked as an economist for over thirty years in the City of London financial center. He is author of The Great Recession: A Marxist View (2009), and The Long Depression (2016).

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