The Economic Crisis in Historical Perspective, Part I

Abstract

To understand the nature and possible consequences of the present economic crisis, we have to try to put it into proper historical perspective. And in order to do this, we must keep firmly in mind that the real history of capitalism results from the interplay of the inner logic of the system and the changing environment within which it operates.

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