Business as usual : the roots of the global financial meltdown /

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Imprint:New York : New York University Press, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Possible futures series ; v. 1
Possible futures series ; v. 1.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11258493
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Other authors / contributors:Calhoun, Craig J., 1952- editor.
Derluguian, Georgi M., editor.
ISBN:9780814772799
081477279X
9780814723555
0814723551
9780814772775
0814772773
9780814772782
0814772781
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from financial exchange and credit. Much more basic than the result of a few financial traders cheating the system, this is a potential historical turning point. In original essays, the contributors establish why the system was ripe for crisis of the past, and yet why this meltdown was different. The volume concludes by asking whether as deep.
Other form:Print version: Business as usual. New York : New York University Press, ©2011 9780814772775 0814772773

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