Reflections on the World Economic Crisis [antikvár]

PREFACE This book brings together some of my lectures and essays on the present world economic and political crisis dating from 1972 to 1980, as well as a long interview made jointly with Samir Amin, with whom I have had large areas of agreement about this crisis, in 1974. Ail of these pieces were originally intended for students and général readers who had no spécial economic or other professional training and who were hardly aware of the depth of the crisis before the mid-1970s. There-fore, these ideas should now be ail the more compréhensible to général audiences, whose own experience in the meantime has made them increasingly aware of the development of this world crisis. Some of the material in the later chapters is based on my recent research; a more technical and extensive présentation is contained in my two longer books, Crisis: In the 'World Economy and Crisis: In the Third World, published in 1980 and 1981, respectively, by Holmes & Meier in New York and Heinemann in London. The publication of these lectures and essays in a single volume necessarily involves some répétition of the central thesis, especially with regard to the place of the economic crisis of the industrial capitalist countries in the world economy. For present purposes, however, I have eut or otherwise revised some of the original pieces in order to avoid undue répétition of détail. On the other hand, the assembly here of the chapters in the chronological order of their delivery usefully reveals the évolution of one observer's perceptions of and reflections on the crisis step by step with its real development. Therefore this book also offers something of a sociology of knowledge (at least by one student) of the development of this world crisis