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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Economics between Science and 'Non-Science' in the Current Crisis of the Capitalist System Part I: TOWARD A CRITIQUE OF BASIC ECONOMIC CATEGORIES 1. Economic Theory from Utopian Socialism to Marx 2. The Production Process Part II: CATEGORIES AND DYNAMICS OF THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM AND ITS CRISIS 3. The Basics of National Accounting 4. A Critique of National Accounting Part III: A CRITIQUE OF ECONOMICS AS APPLIED TO THE STRUCTURE OF MANAGEMENT: THE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM AND THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM 5. A Critical Theory of the Enterprise 6. THe Enterprise and the Microeconomics of Socialism 7. Socialist Public Administration Part IV: A CRITIQUE OF ECONOMICS AS APPLIED TO ECONOMIC SYSTEMS: REGULATION AND PLANNING 8. A Critique of the Theory of Hegemonic Liberalism and the Paradigm of Financialization 9. The Objectives of the Socialist Economic Model Part V: A CRITIQUE OF ECONOMICS AS APPLIED TO THE WORLD SYSTEM: OPEN ECONOMY AND IMPERIALISM 10. International Trade and Imperialism 11. International Economic Relations from the Point of View of the Theory of Imperialism 12. Imperialism and International Trade in Action Part VI: SCENARIOS FROM TEH SYSTEMIC CRISIS AND THE VALIDITY OF MARX'S SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS FRO THE CRITIQUE OF APPLIED ECONOMICS 13. The Post-Fordist Paradigm and the New Industrial Revolution 14. Socio-Prooductive Configuration of the Knowledge Economy 15. The dynamics and Implementation of Economic Policies in the Global Competition 16. The New Composition of the World of Labour Part VII: CAPITAL AGAINST NATURE 17. How Capital Destroys Humanity 18. Market 'Sustainable Development' in the Dynamics of the Quantitative Development of Capital 19. Capital Destroys and then Measures 20. 'Clean' Energies of Capitalism: Agro-Fuels 21. Brief Conclusions: The Struggle of Grassroots Movements and an Economic Socio-Ecological Political Theory for a Development Outside the Market Part VIII: CURRENT TRENDS: FROM QUANTITATIVE GROWTH TO THE STRUCTURAL AND SYSTEMIC CRISIS OF CAPITALIST PRODUCTION 22. Capitalist Accumulation and its Crises 23. The Economies' Cyclical Behavior After WWII 24. An Attempt to Overcome the Structural and Systemic Crisis: The Solution is a Radical Alternative Bibliography Index.
