John Weeks

Capital, Exploitation and Economic Crisis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 2008 the capitalist world was swept by the severest crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, which took the form of a collapse of financial assets, many of which were arcane and incomprehensible even to experts. Mainstream economics neither anticipated nor could account for this disastrous collapse of assets, which required massive state intervention throughout the capitalist world. Karl Marx did anticipate this type of financial collapse, arguing that it was derivative from the a fetishism of commoditiesa (TM) inherent in the capitalist mode of production. This book substantiates the foregoing claim by a journey from Marxa (TM)s analysis of commodities to the capitalist crisis of the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415610551
• ISBN-10: 0415610559
• Artikelnr.: 31301340

Autorenporträt

John Weeks is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Value as Embodied Labor 2. Value as a Social Relation(Annex
to Chapter 1 and 2: Marx and Engels on the Law of Value) 3. Exploitation
and Surplus Value 4. The Circuit of Capital (Annex to Chapter 4: Marxian
and Mainstream Economic Categories) 5. Commodity Money 6. Capital and Money
(Annex to Chapter 6: The Neoclassical Quantity Theory) 7. Credit, Crises
and Capital 8. Competition among Capitals 9. Fixed Capital and Circulation
(Annex to Chapter 9: Marx and Demand Failures) 10. Accumulation and Crises
11. First Crisis of the Twenty-first Century