The Failure of Capitalist Production

Name: The Failure of Capitalist Production
Brand: Pluto Press
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By Andrew Kliman

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The recent financial crisis and Great Recession have been analysed endlessly in the mainstream and academia, but this is the first book to conclude, on the basis of in-depth analyses of official US data, that Marx's crisis theory can explain these events. Marx believed that the rate of profit has a tendency to fall, leading to economic crises and recessions. Many economists, Marxists among them, have dismissed this theory out of hand, but Andrew Kliman's careful data analysis shows that the rate of profit did indeed decline after the post-World War II boom and that free-market policies failed to reverse the decline. The fall in profitability led to sluggish investment and economic growth, mounting debt problems, desperate attempts of governments to fight these problems by piling up even more debt - and ultimately to the Great Recession. Kliman's conclusion is simple but shocking: short of socialist transformation, the only way to escape the 'new normal' of a stagnant, crisis-prone economy is to restore profitability through full-scale destruction of existing wealth, something not seen since the Depression of the 1930s.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: illustrated
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 256
Publisher:: Pluto Press
Publication Date:: 2011-11-07
Release Date:: 2011-07-11
ISBN / EAN:: 9780745332390
Weight:: 366 g
Dimensions:: 14/22/2 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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