Shipman Capitalism without Capital

Accounting for the crash
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-44244-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 180 Seiten

Reihe: Economics and Finance (R0)

Financial crisis, recession and worsening inequality have long been blamed on a surplus of capital. But the actions that led the latest boom and bust by banks and businesses, households and governments - can better be explained capital's increasing scarcity. Efforts to track it down confirm its disappearance.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shipman, Alan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1 An Obvious Excess of Capital 2 A Still More Obvious Excess; Capital as Wealth 3 The Scarcity of Capital In Practice 4 What's Not There? Capital Definitions and Measurements 5 The Destination of Wealth 6 Economics Without Capital 7 Economies Without Capital

Über Autor(innen)

Educated long enough ago to have encountered the unsolved problems of capital theory, Alan Shipman left economic research to pursue business journalism, financial analysis, freelance writing and bicycle maintenance before returning to economics in 2008 to find out why the problems still hadn't been solved.