THE CRISIS THIS TIME

Are we entering a new age of austerity - with further assaults on trade unions and the social entitlements of working people?

Sober assessment and analysis of the crisis, in its political and economic dimensions, is needed the Left is to revive.

Contributors to this volume on economic crisis address key themes:

1. putting 'the crisis this time' in historical and theoretical perspective
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3. analyzing the role f banks and derivatives in global financialization
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5. interrogating Wall Street and the City of London before and after the crisis
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7. surveying the crisis in the USA, the UK, Europe, Japan and South Africa
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9. taking the measure of the impact of the crisis on working class families
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11. showing how 'exit strategies' are reviving neoliberalism
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13. surveying the struggles against the new public austerity in Greece, Ireland, UK and USA