(P/B) CAPITALISM'S CRISIS DEEPENS

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While most mainstream commentators view the crisis that provoked the Great Recession as having passed, these essays from Richard Wolff paint a far less rosy picture.
Drawing attention to the extreme downturn in most of capitalism's old centers, the unequal growth in the its new centers, and the resurgence of a global speculative bubble, Wolff - in his uniquely accessible style - makes the case that the crisis should be grasped not as a passing moment but as an evolving stage in capitalism's history. (From the publisher)

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Preface
Part I: Crisis Capitalism
Capitalist Crisis and the Return to Marx
The Myth of "American Exceptionalism" Implodes
The Revenge of Trickle-Down Economics
In Economic Crisis, Capitalism Delivers the Bads
A Tale of Two Lootings
Capitalism and Poverty
Five Reasons Why the Crisis Persists
Capitalism's Ideological Crutches
Capitalism Efficient? We Can Do So Much Better
From Detroit to China to Bangladesh: Capitalism's Costs, Capitalists' Freedom
Economic Development in Rana Plaza Capitalism, Democracy, and Elections
"Pure" Capitalism Is Pure Fantasy
How Capitalism's Great Relocation
Pauperized America's Middle Class
US Political Dysfunction and Capitalism's Withdrawal Capitalism and Unemployment
Capitalism and Democracy: Year-End Lessons
Political Corruption and Capitalism
The Wages of Global Capitalism
Part II: Crisis Economics
Austerity
US Tax Deal Brings Austerity Closer
Main Street Moves against Wall Street
Why Capitalism Is Choosing Plan B
The Truth about Profits and Austerity
The Great Austerity Shell Game
Austerity, US Style, Exposed
Austerity: Another "Policy Mistake"
Taxes
Corporations to Government: Give Us More, Tax Us Less
How the Rich Soaked the Rest of Us
Who Really Pays Taxes
Public Sector
Going Beyond Private versus Public
The Hidden Money
Social Security's Explosive Injustices
Banking
Lehman Brothers: Financially and Morally Bankrupt
Big Finance's Pathology Compels the Logic of Socialized Banking
Debt
S&P's Judgment on US Debt Is Substandard and Poor
"Living Within Our Means" and Standard and Poor's Downgrade
Deficits, Debts, and Deepening Crisis
Europe's Debt Crisis Deepens
Deja Vu: Germany Tightens Its Economic Power over Europe
The Greek Crisis, Austerity, and a Postcapitalist Future
Scapegoat Economics 2015
Greece Needs Our Solidarity in Its Struggle Against Austerity
Deficits, Debts, and Demagogues
The So-Called Recovery
Recovery, What Recovery?
Economic Recovery for Whom?
After Five Years: Report Card on Crisis Capitalism
Recovery Hype: American Capitalism's Weapon of Mass Distraction
Why Debates over the Fed's Interest Rate Miss the Point
Capitalism and Its Regulation Delusion
Part III: Crisis Politics
Government Intervention
Government Economic Intervention for Whom?
This Is No Bailout for Main Street America
Ghost of New Deal Haunts Democrats' Agenda, but It's Time to Summon FDR
Federal Reserve
Ben Bernanke's Silence Speaks Volumes
Bernanke's Speech Was Only a Minor Footnote to Enduring Crisis
Janet Yellen and I Were Taught to Revere Capitalism. But It's a Failing System
Debt Ceilings and Budget Battles
Budget Battles: Sound, Fury, and Fakery
Fiscal Cliff Follies: Political Theater Distracts from Key Problems with the Fix
Economic Policy Debates: Theater of Distraction
Political Economy of Partisan "Debates"
Ongoing Crisis and Liberal Blindness
The Truth about "Class War" in America
The Political Economy of Obama's Reelection
Class War Redux: How the American Right Embraced Marxist Struggle
Critics of Capitalism Must Include Its Definition
US Politics' True Bipartisan Consensus: Capitalism Is Untouchable
Part IV: Crisis Responses, Going Beyond Capitalism
The Occupy Movement
Occupy Wall Street Ends Capitalism's Alibi
How the 1 Percent Got Richer, while the 99 Percent Got Poorer
The Originality of Occupy Wall Street
Harvard Students Join the Movement
Criticism, Violence, and Roosting Chickens
Occupy Production: A Vision for Democracy at Work
Occupy the Corporation
Class, Change, and Revolution
Debates on the Left
What's Left of the American Left?
A New Dawn for the US Left
A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
Debating Capitalism-Redefining Outdated Terms
Lessons from Labor
Lost Elections, Strategic Lessons for Workers' Movements Everywhere
Detroit's Decline Is a Distinctively Capitalist Failure
What Drove Organized Labor's Decline in the United States?
Lessons from Chattanooga
Alternatives
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