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Overripe Economy: American Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy

Overripe Economy: American Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy in Bloomington, MN
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Capitalism is in crisis.
Overripe Economy
uses a historical view to explain how we got here and why. Taking readers through the history of American capitalismfrom the ruthless competition of the nineteenth century to the maturation of industrial capitalism in the early part of the twentieth and on into today’s finance-ridden declineAlan Nasser lays out here in damning detail why the persistent austerity of financialized capitalism is the inevitable outcome of the evolution of the American economy. Capitalism, he argues, ultimately presents us with two alternatives: persistent austerity, declining democracy, and a privatized state, or a polity and economy characterized by genuine economic democracy.
Overripe Economy
uses a historical view to explain how we got here and why. Taking readers through the history of American capitalismfrom the ruthless competition of the nineteenth century to the maturation of industrial capitalism in the early part of the twentieth and on into today’s finance-ridden declineAlan Nasser lays out here in damning detail why the persistent austerity of financialized capitalism is the inevitable outcome of the evolution of the American economy. Capitalism, he argues, ultimately presents us with two alternatives: persistent austerity, declining democracy, and a privatized state, or a polity and economy characterized by genuine economic democracy.