1st Edition
Money, Finance, and Capitalist Crisis
Introduction: Money, finance, and capitalist crisis
Nobuharu Yokokawa and Costas Lapavitsas
1. Profitability trends in the era of financialization: Notes on the U.S. economy
Costas Lapavitsas and Ivan Mendieta- Muñoz
2. The comparative advantage of the U.S. shadow banking system and the role of the U.S. dollar
Junji Tokunaga
3. Building blocks for the macroeconomics and political economy of housing
Engelbert Stockhammer and Christina Wolf
4. Marx’s Financial Capitalism
Makoto Nishibe
5. Financialization and the impasse of capitalism
Franèois Chesnais
6. State involvement in cryptocurrencies: A potential world money?
Juan J. Duque
Biography
Nobuharu Yokokawa is Professor of Economics, Musashi University, Tokyo. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Japanese Political Economy and has published widely on the topics of political economy, evolutionary economics, economic history and development economics.
Costas Lapavitsas is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is internationally known and published widely on money and finance, contemporary capitalism, the Eurozone, and other topics.
