Capital, exploitation and economic crisis / / John Weeks

• Autore: Weeks John <1941-, >
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 335.4/12
• Soggetto topico: Capitalism; Marxian economics; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Capital; Value
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Capital, exploitation and economic crisis
• ISBN: 1-136-80801-9; 1-283-10376-1; 9786613103765; 1-136-80802-7; 0-203-82839-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789609403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 143.