"This volume analyses contemporary capitalism and its crises based on a theory of capitalist evolution known as the … capitalism since 1980 and the growing globalization and financialization of the world economy. The collection includes analyses … social structure of accumulation (SSA) theory. It applies this theory to explain the severe financial and economic crisis …

1. Introduction: Rising income inequality and finance capitalism -- 2. How to study inequality of the finance … capitalism era -- 3. USA: the birth of global neoliberal financialisation order -- 4. South Korea: transforming national model … capitalism, financialization. In a comparative study of the USA, South Korea, Argentina and Sweden the links that create income …

This book examines “the great contraction” of 2007–2010 within the context of the neoliberal globalization that began … in the early 1980s. This new phase of capitalism greatly enriched the top 5 percent of Americans, including capitalists …

Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction: Neoliberalism as a variety of capitalism -- Part I: The United States …-31 107 -- Part II: Europe -- 8. 'Europe's crisis without end: The consequences of neoliberalism', contributions to political …. 'The economics of globalization: Problems and policy responses', in toward reducing unemployment, 5th plenary session …