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posted on 04.08.2014, 13:43 authored by Jeremy LeamanThis is a quite excellent book, elegantly and cogently written, accessible to a broad
audience of academic and non-academic readers and driven by a passionate
intelligence which diagnoses ruthlessly and prescribes persuasively. It is, firstly, a
book which is quite clearly not just about money but about the evolution of a global
political economy which was not simply captured by finance capitalism but in which
‘monetary accumulation’ (in Altvater’s sense) became the primary driver of economic
activity in the major economies of the world and, as such, generated the worst
economic crisis for at least eighty years; since the crisis is by no means played out, it
is distinctly possible that the ‘credit crunch’ could yet turn out to be the greatest crisis
in the history of capitalism.
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