Stagnation and the Financial Explosion (Economic History As It Happened, Vol. IV)
$20.00
Paperback, 208 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0-85345-715-2
Released: January 1987
This is the fourth in the magisterial series of essays by the former editors of Monthly Review on the state of the U.S. economy and its relation to the global system. Like its predecessors, this volume focuses on the development of U.S. capitalism as it takes place, and covers the 1980s. The authors stress the profound contradictions of the underlying processes of capital accumulation and identify, before any other economic commentators, the immense implications of the use of the explosion of debt to attempt to solve the problems presented by the underlying stagnation in the real economy.
Paul M. Sweezy (1910–2004) was born in New York City, educated at Exeter and Harvard, and after receiving his Ph.D. in 1937, went to the London School of Economics, to Vienna, and to other places on the Continent for graduate study. He taught economics at Harvard until 1946 and was visiting professor of economics at Cornell, Stanford, and the New School. He was a founding editor of Monthly Review and author of Monopoly Capital (with Paul Baran) and The Theory of Capitalist Development, among many other books and articles. Harry Magdoff (1913–2006) directed studies of productivity for the WPA in the 1930s. Towards the end of the Second World War, he became chief economist in charge of the Current Business Analysis Division at the Department of Commerce where he oversaw publication of the Survey of Current Business. Later, he worked as special assistant to Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace. He is widely recognized for his economic analyses of imperialism and was co-editor of Monthly Review from 1969 until 2006.
Publication Date: January 1987
Number of Pages: 208
Additional Information: Economic History As It Happened, Volume IV
Paperback ISBN: 9780853457152
Related products
-
Monthly Review Volume 2, Number 10 (February 1951) [PDF]
$10.00 Add to cart -
Monthly Review Volume 2, Number 9 (January 1951) [PDF]
$10.00 Add to cart -
Monthly Review Volume 1, Number 6 (October 1949) [PDF]
$10.00 Add to cart -
Monthly Review Volume 1, Number 5 (September 1949) [PDF]
$10.00 Add to cart -
Monthly Review Volume 1, Number 1 (May 1949) [PDF]
$10.00 Add to cart -
Man’s Worldly Goods: The Story of the Wealth of Nations
$17.00 – $20.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page