"The book provides a theoretically and historically informed analysis of the global economic crisis. It makes original contributions to theories of value, of crisis and of the state and uses these to develop a rich empirical study of the changing character of capitalism in the twentieth century...

1. Understanding the political economy of global capitalism and crises -- 2. Capitalism and other social orders -- 3. Value theory in an incompletely capitalist society -- 4. The heterogeneity of capital -- 5. A contribution to a theory of crisis and recovery -- 6. States and global capitalism...