Overripe Economy : American Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy.
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- computer
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- 9781786802934
- 330.1220973
- HC110.C3 .N377 2018
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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