Edited by Riccardo Bellofiore, Formerly Professor of Political Economy and Giovanna Vertova, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, University of Bergamo, Italy

• Contents:IntroductionRiccardo Bellofiore and Giovanna Vertova1. The Great Recession and the Contradictions of Contemporary CapitalismRiccardo Bellofiore2. The Crisis of the Early 21st Century: Marxian PerspectiveGérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy3. Marx, Keynes and Hayek and the Great Recession of 2008Meghnad Desai 4. Fictitious Capital in the Context of Global Over-accumulation and Changing International Economic Power RelationshipFrançois Chesnais 5. Conventions and DisruptionsChristian Marazzi 6. Debt, Class and Asset InflationJan Toporowski7. Speculation, Financial Fragility and Stock-flow ConsistencyJo Michell8. A Structural Monetary Reform to Reduce Global Imbalances: Keynes’ Plan Revisited to Avert International Payment DeficitsSergio Rossi 9. The True Rules of a Good Management of Public Finance. An Implication of the Fatal Euro-zone Crisis.Alain Parguez 10. Growth and Crisis in the Italian EconomyVittorio Valli 11. What’s Gender got to do with the Great Recession? The Italian Case.Giovanna Vertova 12. Financial and Nuclear Meltdowns: the Fragility of Chain-reaction Critical ProcessesAlessandro Vercelli Index

‘The Great Recession and the Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism is a critically important contribution and a strongly recommended addition to the academic library economics reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists’

Edited by Riccardo Bellofiore, Formerly Professor of Political Economy and Giovanna Vertova, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, University of Bergamo, Italy

• Contents:IntroductionRiccardo Bellofiore and Giovanna Vertova1. The Great Recession and the Contradictions of Contemporary CapitalismRiccardo Bellofiore2. The Crisis of the Early 21st Century: Marxian PerspectiveGérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy3. Marx, Keynes and Hayek and the Great Recession of 2008Meghnad Desai 4. Fictitious Capital in the Context of Global Over-accumulation and Changing International Economic Power RelationshipFrançois Chesnais 5. Conventions and DisruptionsChristian Marazzi 6. Debt, Class and Asset InflationJan Toporowski7. Speculation, Financial Fragility and Stock-flow ConsistencyJo Michell8. A Structural Monetary Reform to Reduce Global Imbalances: Keynes’ Plan Revisited to Avert International Payment DeficitsSergio Rossi 9. The True Rules of a Good Management of Public Finance. An Implication of the Fatal Euro-zone Crisis.Alain Parguez 10. Growth and Crisis in the Italian EconomyVittorio Valli 11. What’s Gender got to do with the Great Recession? The Italian Case.Giovanna Vertova 12. Financial and Nuclear Meltdowns: the Fragility of Chain-reaction Critical ProcessesAlessandro Vercelli Index

‘The Great Recession and the Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism is a critically important contribution and a strongly recommended addition to the academic library economics reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists’

Edited by Riccardo Bellofiore, Formerly Professor of Political Economy and Giovanna Vertova, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, University of Bergamo, Italy

• Contents:IntroductionRiccardo Bellofiore and Giovanna Vertova1. The Great Recession and the Contradictions of Contemporary CapitalismRiccardo Bellofiore2. The Crisis of the Early 21st Century: Marxian PerspectiveGérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy3. Marx, Keynes and Hayek and the Great Recession of 2008Meghnad Desai 4. Fictitious Capital in the Context of Global Over-accumulation and Changing International Economic Power RelationshipFrançois Chesnais 5. Conventions and DisruptionsChristian Marazzi 6. Debt, Class and Asset InflationJan Toporowski7. Speculation, Financial Fragility and Stock-flow ConsistencyJo Michell8. A Structural Monetary Reform to Reduce Global Imbalances: Keynes’ Plan Revisited to Avert International Payment DeficitsSergio Rossi 9. The True Rules of a Good Management of Public Finance. An Implication of the Fatal Euro-zone Crisis.Alain Parguez 10. Growth and Crisis in the Italian EconomyVittorio Valli 11. What’s Gender got to do with the Great Recession? The Italian Case.Giovanna Vertova 12. Financial and Nuclear Meltdowns: the Fragility of Chain-reaction Critical ProcessesAlessandro Vercelli Index

‘The Great Recession and the Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism is a critically important contribution and a strongly recommended addition to the academic library economics reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists’