Book 34

Crisis of Capitalism

by Luciano Vasapollo

Published 28 October 2011
This book is a compendium of a comprehensive treatise of applied economics published in Italian by Jaca Books in 2007. It includes a number of changes and updates, and a new section on the contradictory relation of capital to nature, intrinsic to the fundamental conflict between capital and labour. The context for the analysis provided of the dynamics of the capitalist development of the forces of production is the global economy, or capitalism as a world system.

The global economy is taken as the starting point for this unique analysis of the dynamics of capitalist development. A compendium of a comprehensive treatise of applied economics, revised, expanded and updated with a new section on the contradictory relation of capital to nature.