The article begins: *** Costas Lapavitsass Profiting Without Producing highlights the corrosive effect of finance
Profiting Without Producing, How Finance Exploits Us All , by Costas Lapavitsas, Verso, £20/$29 Where were the Marxists in 2008, when the demise of Lehman Brothers almost brought about the collapse of capitalism? They were writing long academic texts, which only five years later would put the crisis in an appropriate theoretical and historical context.*** ***** The premise here is false.. The "collapse of the economy" has no necessary relation to "the collapse of capitalism." Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
