TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolff,Richard D.
TI  - Capitalism hits the fan: the global economic meltdown and what to do about it 
SN  - 9781566569361 (pbk.)
AV  - HB 3722 W855c 2013
U1  - 330.973 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Northampton, Mass.
PB  - Olive Branch Press
KW  - Financial crises
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Crisis financiera
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Historia
KW  - Siglo XXI
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - 2001-2009
N1  - Includes bibliographical reference (p. 34) and index; Part I: Roots of a system's crisis -- Part II: Economics of the crisis. Capitalism as a crisis-prone system -- The role of economic theory -- Markets and efficiency -- Wages, productivity, and exploitation -- Housing and debt -- Government intervention in the economy -- International dimensions of the crisis -- Part III: Politics of the crisis. Reforms and regulations as crisis solutions -- Debates over "socialist" solutions -- Anti-capitalist politics
N2  - "In this updated edition Professor Wolff offers a rich and much needed corrective to the views of mainstreameconomists and pundits. He explains why capitalism's global crisis persists, why bank bailouts and austerity policies fail, and why deepening economic inequality now generates historic social tensions and conflicts and worsens the ongoing crisis."--
ER  -