
It's Not Over
Structural Drivers of the Global Economic Crisis
Rohit(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published in December 2012
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-19-808841-7 (ISBN)
Description
The current economic crisis also resulted in a crisis of sorts, within the discipline of economics. The mainstream supply-side theories failed spectacularly to predict the crisis. This calls for alternative theoretical structures which would explain the causes of the same. This book is an attempt towards this very goal. The volume provides both a theoretical analysis along with a very convincing empirical substantiation, giving a novel perspective of the current and continuing crisis. It provides an alternative interpretation of the trend in growth that the United States has witnessed over the last three decades.
The reasons for the crisis are traced in the real economy, instead of the financial. The volume examines, theoretically and empirically, whether increased income and wealth inequality contributed to instability in the US economy. The argument is that crisis in capitalism, including the very recent one, are not mere happenstance, but they are an inherent part of it. The book explains that the crisis is a result of two components, business cycles as well as the underlying trend. Thus, it explores the current crisis with respect to both these issues and places it in a historical context. This book is immensely relevant and topical.
The reasons for the crisis are traced in the real economy, instead of the financial. The volume examines, theoretically and empirically, whether increased income and wealth inequality contributed to instability in the US economy. The argument is that crisis in capitalism, including the very recent one, are not mere happenstance, but they are an inherent part of it. The book explains that the crisis is a result of two components, business cycles as well as the underlying trend. Thus, it explores the current crisis with respect to both these issues and places it in a historical context. This book is immensely relevant and topical.
Reviews / Votes
I strongly recommend this book for its analysis of how US blundered into setting off the GFC. It is much deeper and more advanced, given its Kaleckian-Steindlian foundations, than all the GFC analyses that I have read up until now. * Jerry Courvisanos, The Economic and Labour Relations Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
430 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-808841-7 (9780198088417)
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Person
Rohit is Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, South Asian University, Delhi.
Content
INTRODUCTION; 1. CLASS CONFLICT AND INEQUALITY; 2. WEAKENED WORKERS AND RESURGENT CAPITAL; 3. DID CONCENTRATION INCREASE INEQUALITY?; 4. MODELS ON CONCENTRATION AND GROWTH; 5. THE WEALTH EFFECT; 6. THE DEBT EFFECT; 7. AN OVERVIEW OF THE US ECONOMY; 8. CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOUR IN THE US; 9. INVESTMENT BEHAVIOUR OF US CORPORATIONS; 10. TWO BOOMS SINCE 1990; CONCLUSION; INDEX