TY  - BOOK
AU  - Calhoun,Craig J.
AU  - Derluguian,Georgi M.
TI  - Business as usual: the roots of the global financial meltdown 
T2  - Possible futures series
SN  - 9780814772775 (cl : alk. paper)
AV  - HB 3722 B979 2011
U1  - 330.90511 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Financial crises
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - Crisis financiera
KW  - Capitalismo
KW  - Crisis financiera global, 2008-2009
N1  - "A co-publication with the Social Science Research Council."; Includes bibliographical references and index; The end of the long twentieth century / Beverly J. Silver and Giovanni Arrighi -- Dynamics of (unresolved) global crisis / Immanuel Wallerstein -- The enigma of capital and the crisis this time / David Harvey -- A turning point or business as usual? / Daniel Chirot -- Marketization, social protection, emancipation: toward a neo-Polanyian conception of capitalist crisis / Nancy Fraser -- Crisis, underconsumption, and social policy / Caglar Keyder -- The crisis of global capitalism: toward a new economic culture? / Manuel Castells -- The convolution of capitalism / Gopal Balakrishnan -- The future in question: history and utopia in Latin America (1989-2010) / Fernando Coronil
N2  - Situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from financial exchange and credit. Much more basic than the result of a few financial traders cheating the system, this is a potential historical turning point
ER  -