| Stagnation and the Financial Explosion Contributor(s): Magdoff, Harry (Author), Sweezy, Paul M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0853457158 ISBN-13: 9780853457152 Publisher: Monthly Review Press OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1987 Annotation: This is the fourth in the magisterial series of essays by the former editors of Monthly Review on the state of the U.S. economy and its relation to the global system. Like its predecessors, this volume focuses on the development of U.S. capitalism as it takes place, and covers the years of the 1980s. The authors stress the profound contradictions of the underlying processes of capital accumulation and identify, before any other economic commentators, the immense implications of the use of the explosion of debt to attempt to solve the problems presented by the underlying stagnation in the real economy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economics - Theory - Business & Economics | Inflation - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy |
| Dewey: 330.973 |
| LCCN: 86033129 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.60 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the fourth in a continuing series of collected essays by the former editors of Monthly Review on the state of the U.S. economy and its relation to the global system. Like its predecessors, this volume focuses on the most recent phase of the development of U.S. capitalism, stressing the profound contradictions of the underlying processes of capital accumulation and pointing the way to the fundamental reforms that are the essential precondition for a real economic revival. |
Contributor Bio(s): Magdoff, Harry: - Harry Magdoff has been a co-editor of Monthly Review since 1969 and is the author of The Age of Imperialism and Imperialism: From the Colonial Age to the Present. |