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Crisis has become a ubiquitous feature of contemporary life which is increasingly dominated by financial collapse, global pandemics, geopolitical upheavals, and climate breakdown. Too often, however, the contours, causes and consequences of crises are taken for granted. Adapted from the popular SPERI Presents... podcast series Crisis Point, this volume seeks to understand the role of crisis in the development and reproduction of capitalism. Each chapter is an interview with an expert political economy scholar, also weaving through the editors’ own analysis. By examining capitalism's historical crises, the volume makes sense of contemporary crisis dynamics from housing to populism to climate. Combining the theoretical and historical rigour of scholarly analysis with an accessible conversational style, the volume makes intelligible the structural drivers of crisis for scholars, students, activists and informed observers of global politics alike.
Chris Saltmarsh is a postgraduate researcher in Politics at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Dillon Wamsley is a Bicentennary Research Fellow in Politics at the University of Manchester, UK.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Crisis, In Theory By Chris Saltmarsh And Dillon Wamsley.- 2. The Long Depression: Crisis In The History Of Economic ThoughtMatthew Watson .- 3. The Great Depression: A Crisis Of Liberal Civilisation by Gareth Dale.- 4. Stagflation: A Crisis Of Social Democracy? by Colin Hay.- 5. The 2008 Global Financial Crisis: Causes And Consequences by Scott Lavery.- 6. Austerity: Managing Capitalist Crisis by Clara Mattei.- 7. The Housing Crisis: Business-As-Usual? By Johnna Montgomerie.- 8. Cost-Of-Living: A Crisis Of Inflation by Martijn Konings.- 9. Crisis Of Democracy: Discontent And The Rise Of Populism by Michael Bray.- 10. Climate Crisis: The Road To Catastrophe by Jeremy Green.- 11. Conclusion: Beyond Crisis by Dillon Wamsley And Chris Saltmarsh.
About the author
Chris Saltmarsh is a postgraduate researcher in Politics at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Dillon Wamsley is a Bicentennary Research Fellow in Politics at the University of Manchester, UK.
Summary
Crisis has become a ubiquitous feature of contemporary life which is increasingly dominated by financial collapse, global pandemics, geopolitical upheavals, and climate breakdown. Too often, however, the contours, causes and consequences of crises are taken for granted. Adapted from the popular SPERI Presents... podcast series Crisis Point, this volume seeks to understand the role of crisis in the development and reproduction of capitalism. Each chapter is an interview with an expert political economy scholar, also weaving through the editors’ own analysis. By examining capitalism's historical crises, the volume makes sense of contemporary crisis dynamics from housing to populism to climate. Combining the theoretical and historical rigour of scholarly analysis with an accessible conversational style, the volume makes intelligible the structural drivers of crisis for scholars, students, activists and informed observers of global politics alike.
