The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences Contributor(s): Foster, John Bellamy (Author), Magdoff, Fred (Author) |
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ISBN: 1583671846 ISBN-13: 9781583671849 Publisher: Monthly Review Press OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economic Conditions - Business & Economics | Economics - General |
Dewey: 330.905 |
LCCN: 2008044449 |
Physical Information: 0.43" H x 5.5" W x 7.98" (0.41 lbs) 144 pages |
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Publisher Description: In the fall of 2008, the United States was plunged into a financial crisis more severe than any since the Great Depression. As banks collapsed and the state scrambled to organize one of the largest transfers of wealth in history, many--including economists and financial experts--were shocked by the speed at which events unfolded. |
Contributor Bio(s): Foster, John Bellamy: - John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review. He is professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and author of The Ecological Revolution, The Great Financial Crisis (with Fred Magdoff), Critique of Intelligent Design (with Brett Clark and Richard York), Ecology Against Capitalism, Marx's Ecology, and The Vulnerable Planet. Magdoff, Fred: -Fred Magdoff taught at the University of Vermont in Burlington, is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation, and has written on political economy for many years. He is most recently the author (with John Bellamy Foster) of The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (Monthly Review Press). |