A micro-organism that is ruling all of us today is an exposition to a larger failure of a continuing economic system that has been ruling us. The SARS-CoV-2 has exposed yet again the instability of a capitalist government which never had the means to the functioning of a democracy. That is it...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Evidence of six crises -- Chapter 3. Globalization, national economies, and global crises -- Chapter 4. Conceptual issues — Depressions, recessions, crisis cycles, business cycles -- Chapter 5. A world economy -- Chapter 6. Why do crises occur? Causal...

The Covid-19 pandemic had different impacts across the globe, according to both country structure and conjunctural responses from local governments. This article aims to characterize the main traits of capitalism in Brazil, with a focus on its evolution over the last 20 years and the way these...