The Failure of Capitalist Production: Underlying Causes of the Great Recession

Author:   Andrew Kliman
Publisher:   Pluto Press
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9780745332390


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   07 November 2011
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Author:   Andrew Kliman
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.314kg
ISBN:  

9780745332390


ISBN 10:   0745332390
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   07 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Tables List of Figures 1. Introduction 2. Profitability, the Credit System, and the “Destruction of Capital” 3. Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: Dot-com boom and home-price bubble 4. The 1970s––Not the 1980s––as Turning Point 5. Falling Rates of Profit and Accumulation 6. The Current-cost “Rate of Profit” 7. Why the Rate of Profit Fell 8. The Underconsumptionist Alternative 9. What Is to Be Undone? Bibliography Index

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The Failure of Capitalist Production is essential reading for all Marxists and lefts interested in what caused the Great Recession. It debunks the fads and fashionable arguments of neoliberalism, underconsumption and inequality with a battery of facts. It restores Marx's law of profitability to the centre of any explanation of capitalist crisis with compelling evidence and searching analysis. It must be read. -- Michael Roberts Among the myriad publications on the present day crisis, this work stands out as something unusual. Kliman is an excellent theorist, and an equally excellent analyst of empirical data. -- Paresh Chattopadhyay, Universite du Quebec a Montreal Clear, rigorous and combative. Kliman demonstrates that the current economic crisis is a consequence of the fundamental dynamic of capitalism, unlike the vast bulk of superficial contemporary commentary that passes for economic analysis. -- Rick Kuhn, Deutscher Prize winner, Reader in Politics at the Australian National University and long-time activist. One of the very best of the rapidly growing series of works seeking to explain our economic crisis. ... The scholarship is exemplary and the writing is crystal clear. Highly recommended! -- Professor Bertell Ollman, Department of Politics, NYU, author of Dance of the Dialectic


One of the very best of the rapidly growing series of works seeking to explain our economic crisis. ... The scholarship is exemplary and the writing is crystal clear. Highly recommended! -- Professor Bertell Ollman, Department of Politics, NYU, author of Dance of the Dialectic Clear, rigorous and combative. Kliman demonstrates that the current economic crisis is a consequence of the fundamental dynamic of capitalism, unlike the vast bulk of superficial contemporary commentary that passes for economic analysis. -- Rick Kuhn, Deutscher Prize winner, Reader in Politics at the Australian National University and long-time activist. Among the myriad publications on the present day crisis, this work stands out as something unusual. Kliman is an excellent theorist, and an equally excellent analyst of empirical data. -- Paresh Chattopadhyay, Universite du Quebec a Montreal The Failure of Capitalist Production is essential reading for all Marxists and lefts interested in what caused the Great Recession. It debunks the fads and fashionable arguments of neoliberalism, underconsumption and inequality with a battery of facts. It restores Marx,s law of profitability to the centre of any explanation of capitalist crisis with compelling evidence and searching analysis. It must be read. -- Michael Roberts


'Essential reading for all Marxists and lefts interested in what caused the Great Recession. It debunks the fads and fashionable arguments of neoliberalism, underconsumption and inequality with a battery of facts. It restores Marx's law of profitability to the centre of any explanation of capitalist crisis with compelling evidence and searching analysis. It must be read' -- Michael Roberts 'One of the very best of the rapidly growing series of works seeking to explain our economic crisis. ... The scholarship is exemplary and the writing is crystal clear' -- Professor Bertell Ollman, Department of Politics, NYU, author of Dance of the Dialectic 'Among the myriad publications on the present day crisis, this work stands out as something unusual. Kliman is an excellent theorist, and an equally excellent analyst of empirical data' -- Paresh Chattopadhyay, Université du Québec à Montréal 'Clear, rigorous and combative. Kliman demonstrates that the current economic crisis is a consequence of the fundamental dynamic of capitalism, unlike the vast bulk of superficial contemporary commentary that passes for economic analysis' -- Rick Kuhn, Deutscher Prize winner, Reader in Politics at the Australian National University and long-time activist.


One of the very best of the rapidly growing series of works seeking to explain our economic crisis. ... The scholarship is exemplary and the writing is crystal clear. Highly recommended! -- Professor Bertell Ollman, Department of Politics, NYU, author of Dance of the Dialectic Clear, rigorous and combative. Kliman demonstrates that the current economic crisis is a consequence of the fundamental dynamic of capitalism, unlike the vast bulk of superficial contemporary commentary that passes for economic analysis. -- Rick Kuhn, Deutscher Prize winner, Reader in Politics at the Australian National University and long-time activist. Among the myriad publications on the present day crisis, this work stands out as something unusual. Kliman is an excellent theorist, and an equally excellent analyst of empirical data. -- Paresh Chattopadhyay, Universite du Quebec a Montreal


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Andrew Kliman is Professor of Economics at Pace University, New York. He is the author of Reclaiming Marx's 'Capital' (Lexington, 2006 ) and The Failure of Capitalist Production (Pluto, 2011).

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