In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives (Spectre)

Albo, Greg; Gindin, Sam; Panitch, Leo

ISBN 10: 1604862122 / ISBN 13: 9781604862126

Published by PM Press, 2010

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Paperback, 144 Pages.-In this groundbreaking study of the financial meltdown, renowned radical political economists lay bare the roots of the crisis in the inner logic of capitalism itself. Objective and detailed, this account provocatively challenges the call for a return to a largely mythical golden age of economic regulation as a check on finance capital.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives (Spectre)
• Publisher: PM Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604862122
• ISBN 13: 9781604862126
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

In this groundbreaking study of the financial meltdown, renowned radical political economists lay bare the roots of the crisis in the inner logic of capitalism itself. Objective and detailed, this account provocatively challenges the call for a return to a largely mythical golden age of economic regulation as a check on finance capital. In addition, it deftly illuminates how the era of neoliberal free markets has been, in practice, under-girded by state intervention on a massive scale. Arguing for genuinely transformative alternatives to capitalism, and discussing how to build the collective capacity to realize these goals, this record is a critique of the crisis and an indispensable springboard for a renewed political left.

About the Author

Greg Albo and Leo Panitch are coeditors of the Socialist Register and professors of political economy at York University in Toronto. Sam Gindin is the former research director of the Canadian Autoworkers Unions and a professor of political economy at York University. They live in Toronto.