Introduction / Keith Hart -- Economy versus democracy -- Habits of austerity : financialization and new ways of dealing with money / Jürgen Schraten -- What financial crisis? The global politics of finance : distributional consequences and legitimizing narratives / Horacio Ortiz -- Party...

"This volume analyses contemporary capitalism and its crises based on a theory of capitalist evolution known as the social structure of accumulation (SSA) theory. It applies this theory to explain the severe financial and economic crisis that broke out in 2008 and the kind of changes required to...