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.
Subject:	Financial crises. Capitalism. Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. Consumption (Economics) Capitalism. Consumption (Economics) Financial crises. Electronic books.
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. Print version record.
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

Table of Contents:

The end of the long twentieth century / Beverly J. Silver and Giovanni Arrighi
Dynamics of (unresolved) global crisis / Immanuel Wallerstein
The enigma of capital and the crisis this time / David Harvey
A turning point or business as usual? / Daniel Chirot
Marketization, social protection, emancipation: toward a neo-Polanyian conception of capitalist crisis / Nancy Fraser
Crisis, underconsumption, and social policy / Caglar Keyder
The crisis of global capitalism: toward a new economic culture? / Manuel Castells
The convolution of capitalism / Gopal Balakrishnan
The future in question: history and utopia in Latin America (1989-2010) / Fernando Coronil.

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