Capitalism, Macroeconomics and Reality: Understanding Globalization, Financialization, Competition and Crisis
James Crotty, "Capitalism, Macroeconomics and Reality: Understanding Globalization, Financialization, Competition and Crisis"
English | ISBN: 1784719013 | 2017 | 448 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1784719013 | 2017 | 448 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This wide-ranging set of papers deals with crucial questions in economic theory, economic policy and economic history. The papers help explain why economic performance deteriorated dramatically in the West over the past three decades as the ''Golden Age'' of capitalism after World War II was replaced by global neoliberal capitalism. They show that theoretical frameworks rooted in the radical and heterodox traditions can explain this evolution and the current global economic and financial crisis, something mainstream theories cannot do.
Topics include but are not limited to:
methodology: a critique of ''positivism'' is used to explain why mainstream reliance on fairy-tale assumptions should be replaced by realistic assumption sets as argued by Marx and Keynes
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