La crisi, le sue origini e il prossimo futuro

Russo, Alberto (2011): La crisi, le sue origini e il prossimo futuro.

Abstract

We briefly describe the evolution of the global process of capitalist accumulation during the neoliberal decades, to stress the “real causes” of the current crisis. This analysis leads to the search for a radical alternative to “austerity”, that is the economic policy approach tied to an interpretation of the crisis due to problems of “financial nature”. In our view, the political alternative to the neoliberal management of the crisis should be based on a large extension of education in the context of a “green” and “egalitarian” process of economic development. This requires a significant involvement of the public sector (in collaboration with private capitals) in providing the bases for economic growth, and a political support to an appropriate taxation of wealth (by now highly concentrated in a very small fraction of the population).

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: The crisis, its origins, and the next future
• Language: Italian
• Keywords: capitalist accumulation; neoliberal crisis; political change; public sector; education; wealth taxation
• Subjects: P - Economic Systems > P1 - Capitalist Systems > P17 - Performance and Prospects; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook > E65 - Studies of Particular Policy Episodes; G - Financial Economics > G0 - General > G01 - Financial Crises

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