DOCUMENTO: The First Great Depression of the XXI Century

DOCUMENTO: The First Great Depression of the XXI Century

Authors

  • Anwar Shaikh The New School for Social Research of New York

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22458/rr.v3i2.304

Keywords:

Capitalist crisis, economical depression, Marxism, post-Keynesianism, rate of profit, rate of interest, debt, recession, financial crisis, mortgage crisis

Abstract

This paper states the thesis that the first economical great depression of XXI century, was triggered by the financial crisis and global recession that began in 2007. According to its claim, this is a long-term crisis. The problem is analyzed considering the trends in the rate of profit, rate of interest, wage payments, hourly labor productivity and the process of family indebtedness. All of these aspects lead to determine the several and most outstanding traits of the depression, and its contradictory, unstable and unsustainable condition. Later on, the paper focuses its attention on the fact that the policies that are trying to solve the crisis, are at the same time, damaging life conditions of working classes, especially in Europe.

Author Biography

Anwar Shaikh, The New School for Social Research of New York

Profesor del Departamento de Economía del The New School for Social Research of New York, economista marxista de origen pakistaní, ha dedicado gran parte de su obra al análisis de las teorías económicas neoclásicas y post-keynesianas. Sus artículos se pueden encontrar en la pagina web http://homepage.newschool.edu/~AShaikh/. Es autor de Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The Political Economy of National Accounts, coautor E. Ahmet Tonak, Cambridge University Press, 1994 y en castellano, Valor, Acumulación y Crisis: Ensayos de Economía Política, Tercer Mundo Editores, Bogota, Colombia, 1990.

Published

2013-12-10

How to Cite

Shaikh, Anwar. 2013. “DOCUMENTO: The First Great Depression of the XXI Century”. Revista Rupturas 3 (2):224-45. https://doi.org/10.22458/rr.v3i2.304.

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