Crisis Of Capitalism: Compendium Of Applied Economics (global Capitalism)

Luciano Vasapollo: Professor of economics and statistics at Università La Sapienza in Rome, and the Universidad de Habana (Cuba); director of the research centre CESTES and the journals PROTEO y NUESTRA AMÉRICA. Honored with a 'gold medal' for contributions to the national culture in Cuba and an honorary doctorate

• Introduction: Economics between Science and 'Non-Science' in the Current Crisis of the Capitalist SystemPart I: TOWARD A CRITIQUE OF BASIC ECONOMIC CATEGORIES1. Economic Theory from Utopian Socialism to Marx2. The Production ProcessPart II: CATEGORIES AND DYNAMICS OF THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM AND ITS CRISIS3. The Basics of National Accounting4. A Critique of National AccountingPart III: A CRITIQUE OF ECONOMICS AS APPLIED TO THE STRUCTURE OF MANAGEMENT: THE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM AND THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM5. A Critical Theory of the Enterprise6. THe Enterprise and the Microeconomics of Socialism7. Socialist Public AdministrationPart IV: A CRITIQUE OF ECONOMICS AS APPLIED TO ECONOMIC SYSTEMS: REGULATION AND PLANNING8. A Critique of the Theory of Hegemonic Liberalism and the Paradigm of Financialization9. The Objectives of the Socialist Economic Model Part V: A CRITIQUE OF ECONOMICS AS APPLIED TO THE WORLD SYSTEM: OPEN ECONOMY AND IMPERIALISM10. International Trade and Imperialism11. International Economic Relations from the Point of View of the Theory of Imperialism 12. Imperialism and International Trade in Action Part VI: SCENARIOS FROM TEH SYSTEMIC CRISIS AND THE VALIDITY OF MARX'S SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS FRO THE CRITIQUE OF APPLIED ECONOMICS13. The Post-Fordist Paradigm and the New Industrial Revolution 14. Socio-Prooductive Configuration of the Knowledge Economy15. The dynamics and Implementation of Economic Policies in the Global Competition 16. The New Composition of the World of LabourPart VII: CAPITAL AGAINST NATURE17. How Capital Destroys Humanity 18. Market 'Sustainable Development' in the Dynamics of the Quantitative Development of Capital 19. Capital Destroys and then Measures20. 'Clean' Energies of Capitalism: Agro-Fuels21. Brief Conclusions: The Struggle of Grassroots Movements and an Economic Socio-Ecological Political Theory for a Development Outside the MarketPart VIII: CURRENT TRENDS: FROM QUANTITATIVE GROWTH TO THE STRUCTURAL AND SYSTEMIC CRISIS OF CAPITALIST PRODUCTION 22. Capitalist Accumulation and its Crises23. The Economies' Cyclical Behavior After WWII24. An Attempt to Overcome the Structural and Systemic Crisis: The Solution is a Radical AlternativeBibliographyIndex.

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