ISBN-13: 9780241509166

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

Year: 2024

Pages: None

Cataloged: Feb. 20, 2025, 1:44 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9781909026032

ISBN-10: 1909026034

Language: English

Publisher: International Socialism

Year: 2012

Pages: 224

Cataloged: Feb. 20, 2025, 1:39 p.m.

“We are on the edge of the abyss. One slip and we will be into depression like that of the early 1930s.” That message has been repeated a thousand times in one way or another since the banking system imploded and stock markets sank in September and October 2008. However, there has been very little real analysis of what produced the great slump or of the real comparisons with the situation today. The slump of the 1930s was by far the worst that capitalism had ever known. It cut industrial output by half in the world’s two biggest economies, the US and Germany, and made about a third of workers unemployed in each case. It was by far the most significant economic event of the 20th century. Yet coming to terms with the slump has been the great problem of mainstream economics. Ben Bernanke, head of the US federal reserve bank, is meant to be one of the mainstream experts on it. He calls the explanation the “Holy Grail” of economics1—something sought after but never found. Nobel economics laureate Edward C Prescott describes it as a “pathological episode and it defies explanation by standard economics”.2 For Robert Lucas, another Nobel laureate, “it takes a real effort of will to admit you don’t know what the hell is going on”.3

ISBN-13: 9781905192472

ISBN-10: 1905192479

Language: English

Publisher: International Socialism

Year: 2009

Pages: 204

Cataloged: Feb. 20, 2025, 1:37 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9781583670163

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Monthly Review Foundation

Year: 2000

Pages: 160

Cataloged: Feb. 20, 2025, 1:36 p.m.

“What’s the danger in turning a blind eye? Your son might die”.1 That was the chilling headline of the “Saturday Interview” with Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick in The Times on 31 March this year. Elsewhere in the article, Dick observed that “it is really shocking that you are 10 times more likely to be killed if you are a young black man than if you are not”.2 In the preceding fortnight ten people had been stabbed to death in the capital. In the following week a series of attacks brought that horrific reality home to the families and friends of a number of other young Londoners. These murders catapulted the issue of violent crime into the headlines across the media. By early April this year, more than 50 such deaths had occurred in the capital. It was calculated that if this rate were to continue, there would be 180 in London by the year’s end, the highest number since 2005. There can be few things more heartbreaking than the loss of a loved one in such tragic circumstances. There are those who draw a distinction between those such as 17 year old Tanesha Melbourne, one of those who died over the Easter period who, we were told, was an innocent victim who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, with those whose social media posts suggest that they were heavily involved in violent and feuding gangs. But we should treat all these deaths as tragedies. Our hearts should go out to the families and friends of all the people who have been slain.

ISBN-13: 9781910885901

ISBN-10: 1910885908

Language: English

Publisher: International Socialism

Year: 2015

Pages: 192

Cataloged: Feb. 20, 2025, 1:34 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9781909026964

ISBN-10: 1909026964

Language: English

Publisher: International Socialism

Year: 1992

Pages: 224

Cataloged: Feb. 20, 2025, 1:33 p.m.

We enter 2011 in a situation marked by both continuity and—in Britain, at least—dramatic discontinuity. The element of continuity is represented, of course, by the global economic and financial crisis. Change comes in the form of the sudden emergence of the first real social movement in Britain for many years, the protests by university and school students against the near-trebling of tuition fees. The night a House of Commons surrounded by students fighting riot police voted for the increase, a visibly shaken Nick Robinson, BBC Political Editor, said: “The government may have won a vote, but they may have lost the argument, and lost control of the streets.” Continuity first: the crisis is now well into its fourth year, but shows no signs of ending. This is not because there is no economic growth. The November survey of purchasing managers suggests manufacturing output is rising in Germany, France, Britain, China, and India. But in its latest World Economic Outlook, published in October 2010, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was gloomy:

ISBN-13: 9781905192779

ISBN-10: 1905192770

Language: English

Publisher: International Socialism

Year: 2011

Pages: 224

Cataloged: Feb. 20, 2025, 1:32 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9781909026322

ISBN-10: 1909026328

Language: English

Publisher: International Socialism

Year: 2013

Pages: 224

Cataloged: Feb. 20, 2025, 1:30 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9781905192717

ISBN-10: 1905192711

Language: English

Publisher: International Socialism

Year: 2010

Pages: 224

Cataloged: Feb. 20, 2025, 1:29 p.m.