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Title Business as usual : the roots of the global financial meltdown / edited by Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derluguian.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Possible futures series ; v. 1
Possible futures series ; v. 1.
Note "A joint publication of the Social Science Research Council and New York University Press."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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 establish why the system was ripe for crisis of the past, and yet why this meltdown was different. The volume concludes by asking whether as deep.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009)
Financial crises.
Financial crises.
Capitalism.
Capitalism.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Consumption (Economics)
Consumption (Economics)
Chronological Term 2008 - 2009
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Calhoun, Craig J., 1952-
Derluguian, Georgi M.
Other Form: Print version: Business as usual. New York : New York University Press, ©2011 9780814772775 0814772773 (DLC) 2010052308 (OCoLC)692291870
ISBN 9780814772799 (electronic book)
081477279X (electronic book)
9780814723555 (electronic book)
0814723551 (electronic book)
9780814772775
0814772773
9780814772782
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