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Overripe Economy : American Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: #Remove Series... SeriesPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781786802934
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Overripe EconomyDDC classification:
  • 330.1220973
LOC classification:
  • HC110.C3 .N377 2018
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Nineteenth Century: Framework Stimulants, Destructive Competition and the Making of Oligopoly Capitalism -- 2. Working-Class Resistance, the State-Supported Capitalist Response, the Mechanization of Industry and the Defeat of Organized Labor -- 3. The 1920s: The Dynamics of Mature Industrial Capitalism -- 4. The 1930s and the Great Depression -- 5. The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age -- 6. The New Financialization: Debt, Investment and the Financialized Firm -- 7. The Landscape of Austerity: Polarization, the Destruction of Jobs and the Emerging Police State -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix A: Economic Maturity and Disaccumulation - A Mildly Wonkish Summation -- Appendix B: What Keynes Really Prescribed -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This is the history of the development of the profoundly undemocratic American Capitalism.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Nineteenth Century: Framework Stimulants, Destructive Competition and the Making of Oligopoly Capitalism -- 2. Working-Class Resistance, the State-Supported Capitalist Response, the Mechanization of Industry and the Defeat of Organized Labor -- 3. The 1920s: The Dynamics of Mature Industrial Capitalism -- 4. The 1930s and the Great Depression -- 5. The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age -- 6. The New Financialization: Debt, Investment and the Financialized Firm -- 7. The Landscape of Austerity: Polarization, the Destruction of Jobs and the Emerging Police State -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix A: Economic Maturity and Disaccumulation - A Mildly Wonkish Summation -- Appendix B: What Keynes Really Prescribed -- Bibliography -- Index.

This is the history of the development of the profoundly undemocratic American Capitalism.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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