The Economics of Global Turbulence: The Advanced Capitalist Economies from Long Boom to Long Downturn, 1945-2005For years, the discipline of economics has been moving steadily away from the real world towards formalized axioms and mathematical models with only a precarious bearing on actuality. Commentators seek to fill the gap as best they can, but in the absence of real background scholarship, journalism is vulnerable to the myopias of fashion and immediacy. The deeper enigmas of post-war development remain in either case largely untouched. Bringing together the strengths of both the economist and the historian, Robert Brenner rises to this challenge. In this work, a revised and newly introduced edition of his acclaimed New Left Review special report, he charts the turbulent post-war history of the global system and unearths the mechanisms of over-production and over-competition which lie behind its long-term crisis since the early 1970s, thereby demonstrating the thoroughly systematic factors behind wage repression, high unemployment and unequal development, and raising disturbing and far-reaching questions about its future trajectory. |
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A Summary | 141 |
The Long Downturn | 143 |
WHY THE LONG DOWNTURN? AN OVERVIEW | 145 |
1 Success and Failure of the Employers Offensive | 146 |
2 Why Did OverCapacity and OverProduction Persist? | 153 |
3 The Growth of Debt | 157 |
4 The Deepening Downturn | 159 |
THE FAILURE OF KEYNESIANISM 197379 | 164 |
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2 The Booms Final Phase in Japan | 117 |
3 The Booms Final Phase in Germany | 120 |
THE CRISIS SPREADS | 122 |
2 The Crisis of the German Economy 196973 | 129 |
3 The Crisis of the Japanese Economy 197073 | 133 |
1 The US Economy in the 1970s | 165 |
2 Japan in the 1970s | 171 |
3 Germany in the 1970s | 179 |
4 Recession Once More | 184 |
THE US COUNTEROFFENSIVE | 187 |
Transcending the Long Downturn? | 194 |
From Bubble to Bust and Beyond | 216 |
Monetarism in the Name of Exports | 229 |
Prosperity Regained? | 237 |
THE LONG DOWNTURN AND THE SECULAR TREND | 239 |
A NEW LONG UPTURN? | 250 |
2 A New Global Boom? | 256 |
DEEPENING TURBULENCE? | 267 |
PROFIT RATES AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH | 345 |
SOURCES FOR MAIN VARIABLES | 349 |
INDEX | 353 |
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| Título | The Economics of Global Turbulence: The Advanced Capitalist Economies from Long Boom to Long Downturn, 1945-2005 |
| Autor | Robert Brenner |
| Edição | ilustrada |
| Editora | Verso, 2006 |
| ISBN | 1859847307, 9781859847305 |
| Num. págs. | 369 páginas |
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