Beginning with the economic meltdown of 2007/8, this book shows that the predatory mortgage lending and overleveraging - which is to say, the overextension of credit - which precipitated The Great Recession was a response to a crisis of overproduction reflective of an unavoidable contradiction...

Preindustrial businesses: the time of the merchant -- The many paths to industrialization -- British and German businesses during industrialization -- Big and small businesses in industrializing America -- Japanese and Chinese businesses during industrialization -- American, British, and German...