TY - BOOK AU - Nasser,Alan TI - Overripe Economy: American Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy T2 - #Remove Series... Series SN - 9781786802934 AV - HC110.C3 .N377 2018 U1 - 330.1220973 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Pluto Press KW - Capitalism-United States-History KW - Democracy-United States-History KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - This is the history of the development of the profoundly undemocratic American Capitalism UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5473164 ER -