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The Trouble with Capitalism: An Enquiry into the Causes of Global Economic Failure

The Trouble with Capitalism: An Enquiry into the Causes of Global Economic Failure

Harry Shutt

Recent instability in financial markets has shaken the idea that the foundations of the global economy are sound. This book forsakes the shibboleths of both the Left and liberal economists to examine the actual behaviour of economic institutions in the OECD countries of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Recent instability in the financial markets has shaken confidence in the global economic order. Is the current variant of ?free market? capitalism in fact sustainable? This remarkable book explains its underlying economic fragility as a result of:The growing redundancy of both capital and labour because of changing technologies and chronic slow growth since the 1970s;The desperate struggle of organised capital to prevent its redundancy from being reflected in a 1930s-type collapse in the price of financial assets;The consequent distortion of official policy -- in areas like corporate subsidies, taxation, pensions and privatisation -- to help maintain the value of capital.This book exposes the sham of the laissez faire prospectus. In fact, state power and resources are increasingly propping up capital while pretending to roll back the frontiers of the state.

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Title - The Trouble with Capitalism: An Enquiry into the Causes of Global Economic Failure

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Author - Harry Shutt

ISBN 13 - 9781856495660

Imprint - Zed Books Ltd

Publisher - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Date Published - 01/06/1998

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 138 x 216 x mm

Weight - g

Languages - English