
Disassembly Required
A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism
Geoff Mann(Author)
AK Press
Published on 1. August 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
262 pages
978-1-84935-126-3 (ISBN)
Description
From money and markets to the subprime crisis, this anti-capitalist pocket guide explains capitalism and its crises, and suggests alternatives.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 183 mm
Width: 113 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
251 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84935-126-3 (9781849351263)
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Person
Geoff Mann lives with his partner and sons in Vancouver BC. He teaches political economy and economic geography at Simon Fraser University, where he directs the Centre for Global Political Economy. His book Our Daily Bread: Wages, Workers and the Political Economy of the American West (UNC, 2007) won the Paul Sweezy Prize from the American Sociological Association and the Michael S. Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association, and his writing on capitalism has appeared in New Left Review and Historical Materialism, among other journals. His current research concerns the politics of macroeconomic policy, and he is presently completing a book on the many lives of Keynesianism.
Content
Disassembly Required: Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Theories of Capitalist Political Economy: From Smith to Marx to Keynes and After
3. Money in Capitalism
4. Markets and Firms
5. The State
6. The Long Boom and the Long(er) Downturn
7. Neoliberalism and the Rise of Finance
8. A Case Study in Crisis: 'Subprime', or the Credit Crunch
9. The Futures of the (Capitalist?) Future
What of Money?
What of Markets and Firms?
What of the State?
What of Our 'Choices'?
1. Introduction
2. Theories of Capitalist Political Economy: From Smith to Marx to Keynes and After
3. Money in Capitalism
4. Markets and Firms
5. The State
6. The Long Boom and the Long(er) Downturn
7. Neoliberalism and the Rise of Finance
8. A Case Study in Crisis: 'Subprime', or the Credit Crunch
9. The Futures of the (Capitalist?) Future
What of Money?
What of Markets and Firms?
What of the State?
What of Our 'Choices'?