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Book SynopsisTrade Review'The high standard we have grown to expect is maintained ... (it) helps us to understand events as they unfold and hopefully, will help guide our future actions.' Spokesman. 'The Socialist Register 2012 provides a fascinating and very informative series of pieces on diverse aspects of the current crisis. Although occasionally eclectic and contradictory, it is thought-provoking and insightful throughout.' Marx and Philosophy Review of Books
Table of ContentsLeo Panitch, Greg Albo, Vivek Chibber : Preface David Harvey : The Urban Roots of Financial Crises: Reclaiming the City for Anti-Capitalist Struggle David McNally : Slump, Austerity and Resistance Ursula Huws : Crisis as Capitalist Opportunity: New Accumulation Through Public Service Commodification Larry Lohmann : Financialization, Commodification and Carbon: The Contradictions of Neoliberal Climate Policy Frances Fox Piven : The New American Poor Law Nicole M. Aschoff : A Tale of Two Crises: Labour, Capital and Restructuring in the US Auto Industry Adolph Reed, Jr. and Merlin Chowkwanyun : Race, Class, Crisis: The Discourse of Racial Disparity and its Analytical Discontents Adam Hanieh : Finance, Oil and the Arab Uprisings: The Global Crisis and the Gulf States Claudio Katz : The Singularities of Latin America Ho-fung Hung : Sinomania: Global Crisis, China's Crisis? Jan Toporowski : Eastern Europe: Post:Communist Assets in Crisis Peadar Kirby : When Banks Cannibalize the State: Responses to Ireland's Economic Collapse SYMPOSIUM ON THE EUROZONE CRISIS AND LEFT STRATEGIES Elmar Altvater - From Subprime Farce to Greek Tragedy: The Crisis Dynamics of Financially Driven Capitalism Costas Lapavitsas - Default and Exit from the Eurozone: A Radical Left Strategy Michel Husson - Exit or Voice? A European Strategy of Rupture
