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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819960503321

Autore

Weeks John <1941-, >

Titolo

Capital, exploitation and economic crisis / / John Weeks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-80801-9

1-283-10376-1

9786613103765

1-136-80802-7

0-203-82839-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 143

Disciplina

335.4/12

Soggetti

Capitalism

Marxian economics

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009

Capital

Value

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Capital, Exploitation and Economic Crisis; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Value as embodied labor; 2. Value as a social relation; 3. Exploitation and surplus value; 4. Circuit of capital; 5. Commodity money; 6. Capital and money; 7. Credit, crises and capital; 8. Competition among capitals; 9. Fixed capital and circulation; 10. Accumulation and crises; 11. First crisis of the twenty-first century; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 2008 the capitalist world was swept by the severest crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Mainstream economics neither anticipated nor could account for this disastrous financial crisis, which required massive state intervention throughout the capitalist world. Karl Marx did anticipate this type of financial collapse, arguing that it was derivative from the 'fetishism of commodities' inherent in the capitalist mode of production. This book substantiates the foregoing claim by a journey from Marx's analysis of commodities to the capitalist



crisis of the twenty-first century.