描述
ISBN：9780198726074
- Provides a detailed answer to the question 'what is capitalism?'
- Brings together sociological and historical approaches to the study of capitalism, drawing on material from a wide range of historical and contemporary societies
- Looks at the origins and developments of capitalism and the various forms it takes worldwide
- Analyses historical cases of crisis within capitalism
- Discusses the global financial crisis of 2007-8 and its on-going effects
- Highlights the problems of financial capitalism by identifying two crisis mechanisms - overproduction/underconsumption and financial crisis of credit expansion and contraction
- Explores the deflationary consequences of quantitative easing (QE), the contraction of credit, and the role of China in the global economy
- Includes an updated further reading section
Net weight: 0.126kg