Crisis of Capitalism

This title is a compendium of a comprehensive treatise of applied economics published in Italian by Jaca Books in 2007. The global economy is taken as the starting point for this unique analysis of the dynamics of capitalist development. Updated and expanded with a new section on the contradictory relation of capital to nature.

Introduction: 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.