Review: The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
Comentário do usuário - Barak - GoodreadsA very interesting book, which gives a modern enlightening Marxist/Socialist view of contemporary economics. Most of the essays in the book were written with prescience before the GFC, and one or two ... Ler resenha completa
Review: The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
Comentário do usuário - Liam Hanlon - GoodreadsExcellent book. Explains in easy to understand terms the causes behind the financial crisis and offers solutions to how we can avoid the same in the future. Of course the solution is socialism. Does a ... Ler resenha completa
Review: The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
Comentário do usuário - Sabyasachi mitra - GoodreadsOne of the best book explaining why Capitalism has always stumbled to breath. Indeed, this book aroused my interest to embark upon a deeper and wider study of the 'overproduction ailment' Capitalism ... Ler resenha completa
Review: The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
Comentário do usuário - Zachary Welch - GoodreadsWith sobering clarity, Foster and Magdoff provide a unique and historical perspective to the latest economic meltdown, tracing its roots to the financialization of capital and a chronic tendency towards stagnation in the "real" economies of advanced industrial societies. Ler resenha completa
Review: The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
Comentário do usuário - Arn Kawano - GoodreadsA selection of lead articles since May 2006 through 2008 from The Monthly Review (a socialist political economic journal) that predicted the current economic crisis and provides the best available ... Ler resenha completa
Review: The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
Comentário do usuário - Michael - Goodreadsexcellent little primer on the rise and contradictions of financialization. Ler resenha completa
Review: The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
Comentário do usuário - Lee - GoodreadsInteresting take on the financial crisis. The authors, who are editors of the socialist journal Monthly Review, locate the cause of the crisis in the intrinsic tendency toward stagnation in the "real ... Ler resenha completa
Review: The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
Comentário do usuário - John - GoodreadsI'd read most of this in Monthly Review over the years. It's fun to see the "power of prediction" of Marxist science (in its Baran/Sweezy variety) on display with the earlier articles that were ... Ler resenha completa
Review: The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
Comentário do usuário - Ms. Rocket Pie - GoodreadsThe Great Financial Crisis, written by the editors of the Monthly Review, articulates the current economic condition of the United States. The book looks at the current situation in a historical ... Ler resenha completa