The ABC's of the economic crisis
Subtitle: what working people need to know
By: by Fred Magdoff and Michael D. Yates.
Contributors: Yates, Michael, 1946-
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781583671955; 9781583671962
Subjects: Working class -- United States -- Economic conditions; Financial crises -- United States; United States -- Economic policy -- 2001-2009
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The calm before the storm; title: What makes capitalism tick; title: Capitalist economies are prone to crisis; title: Mature capitalism's concentration of production and slow growth; title: Can the tendency to slow growth be overcome; title: Economic stagnation sets in following the Second World War; title: Neoliberalism; title: The financial explosion : introduction; title: How did it happen?; title: The explosion of debt; title: The great unraveling; title: The government to the rescue; title: Summary and conclusions.