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Zombie Capitalism
Chris Harman
其他書名
Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx
出版Haymarket Books, 2010
主題Business & Economics / Economic ConditionsBusiness & Economics / Economic HistoryBusiness & Economics / Free Enterprise & CapitalismBusiness & Economics / Labor / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Economics / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Economics / TheoryPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismPolitical Science / History & TheoryPolitical Science / Labor & Industrial RelationsPolitical Science / Public Policy / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Capitalism
ISBN16084610419781608461042
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nLnbAgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋We've been told for years that the capitalist free market is a self-correcting perpetual growth machine in which sellers always find buyers, precluding any major crisis in the system. Then the credit crunch of August 2007 turned into the great crash of September–October 2008, leading one apologist for the system, Willem Buiter, to write of "the end of capitalism as we knew it."

As the crisis unfolded, the world witnessed the way in which the runaway speculation of the "shadow" banking system wreaked havoc on world markets, leaving real human devastation in its wake. Faced with the financial crisis, some economic commentators began to talk of "zombie banks"–financial institutions that were in an "undead state" and incapable of fulfilling any positive function but a threat to everything else. What they do not realize is that twenty-first century capitalism as a whole is a zombie system, seemingly dead when it comes to achieving human goals.