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In and out of crisis : the global financial meltdown and left alternatives / Greg Albo, Sam Gindin, Leo Panitch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Albo, Gregory.
- Series:
- Spectre
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
- Financial services industry--Government policy.
- Financial services industry.
- Financial services industry--Law and legislation.
- Financial services industry--Government policy--United States.
- Financial services industry--Law and legislation--United States.
- Capitalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (211 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, Calif. : PM, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this groundbreaking study of the financial meltdown, renowned radical political economists lay bare the roots of the crisis in the inner logic of capitalism itself. Objective and detailed, this account provocatively challenges the call for a return to a largely mythical golden age of economic regulation as a check on finance capital. In addition, it deftly illuminates how the era of neoliberal free markets has been, in practice, under-girded by state intervention on a massive scale. Arguing for genuinely transformative alternatives to capitalism, and discuss
- Contents:
- PRAISE FOR IN AND OUT OF CRISIS; PREFACE; SURVEYING THE CRISIS:IS NEOLIBERALISM OVER?; NEOLIBERALISM, FINANCE, AND CRISES; FINANCE, REGULATION, AND THE AMERICAN STATE; CRISIS MANAGEMENT FROM BUSH TO OBAMA; FROM FINANCE TO INDUSTRY: THE CRISIS IN AUTO; LABOR'S IMPASSE AND THE LEFT; ANOTHER WAY OUT OF THE CRISIS? STRATEGIC CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN LEFT; TEN THESES ON THE CRISIS; SUGGESTED READINGS; NOTES; ABOUT PM PRESS; FRIENDS OF PM PRESS; Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult
- Global Slump:The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-60486-345-5
- OCLC:
- 611612115
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