Overripe Economy: American Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy, 1st Edition eBook

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From industrialisation to the present day, Overripe Economy is a genealogy of the emergence of a finance-ridden, authoritarian, austerity-plagued American capitalism.

This panoramic political-economic history of the country, surveys the ruthlessly competitive capitalism of the nineteenth century, the maturation of industrial capitalism in the 1920s, the rise and fall of capitalism’s Golden Age and the ensuing decline towards the modern era. Alan Nasser shows why the emergence of the persistent austerity of financialised neoliberal capitalism is the natural outcome of mature capitalism’s evolution, revealing both the key structural and political vulnerabilities of capitalism itself and points towards the kind of system that can transcend it.

At the centre of the argument, is capitalism’s ultimatum: either a ‘new normal’ of persistent austerity, declining democracy and a privatised state, or a polity and economy characterised by an economic democracy that can ensure both higher wages and a shorter working week.

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Overripe Economy: American Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy 1st Edition is written by Alan Nasser and published by Pluto Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Overripe Economy are 9781786802934, 1786802937 and the print ISBNs are 9780745337944, 0745337945. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781786802941.