Business as Usual : : The Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown / / ed. by Craig Calhoun, Georgi Derluguian.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Arrighi, Giovanni,; Balakrishnan, Gopal,; Calhoun, Craig,; Castells, Manuel,; Chirot, Daniel,; Coronil, Fernando,; Derluguian, Georgi,; Fraser, Nancy,; Harvey, David,; Keyder, Caglar,; Silver, Beverly J.,; Wallerstein, Immanuel,
• HerausgeberIn: Calhoun, Craig,; Derluguian, Georgi,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Possible Futures ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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 mor...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Series Acknowledgments
• Series Introduction: From the Current Crisis to Possible Futures
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The End of the Long Twentieth Century
• Chapter 2. Dynamics of (Unresolved) Global Crisis
• Chapter 3. The Enigma of Capital and the Crisis This Time
• Chapter 4. A Turning Point or Business as Usual?
• Chapter 5. Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Toward a Neo-Polanyian Conception of Capitalist Crisis
• Chapter 6. Crisis, Underconsumption, and Social Policy
• Chapter 7. The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Toward a New Economic Culture?
• Chapter 8. The Convolution of Capitalism
• Chapter 9. The Future in Question: History and Utopia in Latin America (1989–2010)
• Notes
• About the Contributors
• Index