Overview

This book is a compendium of a comprehensive treatise of applied economics published in Italian by Jaca Books in 2007. It includes a number of changes and updates, and a new section on the contradictory relation of capital to nature, intrinsic to the fundamental conflict between capital and labour. The context for the analysis provided of the dynamics of the capitalist development of the forces of production is the global economy, or capitalism as a world system.

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Author:   Luciano Vasapollo ,  Barbato Alessandra
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   34
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.813kg
ISBN:  

9789004210325

ISBN 10:   9004210326
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   28 October 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Economics between Science and 'Non-Science' in the Current Crisis of the Capitalist System PART I: A CRITIQUE OF BASIC ECONOMIC CATEGORIES 1. Economic Theory from Utopian Socialism to Marx 2. The Production Process PART II: CATEGORIES AND DYNAMICS OF THE CAPITALISM SYSTEM AND ITS CRISES 3. The Basics of National Accounting 4. A Critique of National Accounting PART III: A CRITIQUE OF ECONOMICS AS APPLIED TO THE STRUCTURE OF MANAGEMENT: THE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM AND THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM 5. A Critical Theory of the Enterprise 6. The Enterprise and the Microeconomics of Socialism 7. Socialist Public Administration PART IV: A CRITIQUE OF ECONOMICS AS APPLIED TO ECONOMIC SYSTEMS: REGULATION AND PLANNING 8. A Critique of the Theory of Hegemonic Liberalism and the Paradigms of Financialization 9. The Objectives of the Socialist Economic Model PART V: A CRITIQUE OF ECONOMICS AS APPLIED TO THE WORLD-SYSTEM: OPEN ECONOMY AND IMPERIALISM 10. International Trade and Imperialism 11. International Economic Relations Since the Theory of Imperialism 12. Imperialism and International Trade in Action PART VI: SCENARIOS FROM THE SYSTEMIC CRISIS AND THE VALIDITY OF MARX’S SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS 13. The Post-Fordist Paradigm and the New Industrial Revolution 14. Socio-Productive Configuration of Knowledge Economies 15. The Dynamics and Implementation of Economic Policies in the Global Competition 16. The New Composition of the World of Labour and the Construction of an Anticapitalist Social Block PART VII: CAPITAL AGAINST NATURE 17. How Capital Destroys Humanity 18. Market 'Sustainable Development' in the Dynamics of the Quantitative Development of Capital 19. Capital Destroys and then Measures 20. ‘Clean’ Energies of Capitalism: Agro-Fuels and Planned Crimes Against Humanity 21. Brief Conclusions: The Struggles of Grassroots Movements and an Economic Socio-Ecological Political Theory for a Development Outside the Market PART VIII: CURRENT TRENDS: FROM QUANTITATIVE GROWTH TO THE STRUCTURAL AND SYSTEMIC CRISIS OF CAPITALIST PRODUCTION 22. Capitalist Accumulation and its Crises 23. The Economies’ Cyclical Behavior After WWII 24. An Attempt to Exit the Structural and Systemic Crisis: A Radical Alternative is the Solution Bibliography Index

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Luciano Vasapollo, Professor of economics and statistics at Università La Sapienza in Rome, and the Universidad de Habana (Cuba); director of the research centre CESTES and the journals PROTEO y NUESTRA AMÉRICA. Author of many books and honored with a 'gold medal' for contributions to the national culture in Cuba and an honory doctorate.

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