Business as Usual: The Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown

by Georgi Derluguian

Book Overview

Situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from financial exchange and credit. Much more basic than the result of a few financial traders cheating the system, this is a potential historical turning point. In original essays, the contributors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814772781
• ISBN13: 9780814772782
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"