Crisis of Capitalism -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Economics between Science and 'Non-Science' in the Current Crisis of the Capitalist System -- PART ONE TOWARDS A CRITIQUE OF BASIC ECONOMIC CATEGORIES -- 1 Economic Theory from Utopian Socialism to Marx -- Before Marx -- The Contributions of the Socialist School -- 3. The Mystifications of Political Economy according to Marx -- 2 The Production Process -- Capitalist Production and the Marxian Theory of Value -- Surplus Labour / Surplus Value -- Social Classes -- The Usefulness of the Marxian Analysis in the Current Context -- PART TWO CATEGORIES AND DYNAMICS OF THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM AND ITS CRISIS -- 3 The Basics of National Accounting -- Marxian Categories and their Statistical Translations -- Limits of Conventional Neoclassical Economic Concepts -- The Centrality of the Debate on Productive and Unproductive Labour -- National Income Accounting -- Economic Operators -- GNP and GDP -- Investment as a Central Category of the Capitalist System -- Productive and Unproductive Investment -- 4 A Critique of National Accounting -- Some Problems Posed by National Accounting -- Marxism and the System of National Accounting -- PART THREE A CRITIQUE OF ECONOMICS AS APPLIED TO THE STRUCTURE OF MANAGEMENT: THE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM AND THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM -- 5 A Critical Theory of the Enterprise -- Business Models and the System of Development -- Individual Aspects and Economic Determination of Self-Financing -- Entrepreneurial Dynamics, Values and Valuations -- Privatizing to Tackle the Depreciation of Capital -- Enterprise Value -- The Theory of Value Creation -- The Evaluation of the Enterprise -- 6 The Enterprise and the Microeconomics of Socialism -- The Basic Rules of Operation -- The Double Character of the Process of Socialist Enterprise Governance.

An Analysis of the Behaviour of the Socialist Enterprise -- The Process of Public Management -- The Impact of Changes on State Participation -- 7 Socialist Public Administration -- The Evolution of the Conceptual Foundations of Public Administration -- Reform Processes in Public Management for Socialist Construction -- The Necessity of Establishing Monitoring Systems and Indicators -- The Means and Mechanisms for the Relations between the State and Economic Policy -- PART FOUR A CRITIQUE OF ECONOMICS AS APPLIED TO ECONOMIC SYSTEMS: REGULATION AND PLANNING -- 8 A Critique of the Theory of Hegemonic Liberalism and the Paradigms of Financialization -- Which Liberalism? Which Market Economy? Which Globalization? -- The Financialization of Economics -- 9 The Objectives of the Socialist Economic Model -- The Transition to Socialism: Different Approaches -- Changes in Socialist Economic Models -- Special Features of Some Economic Planning Models -- The Socialist Economy and the Capitalist Economy -- The Model of Centralized and Decentralized Planning -- The Reformed Model -- The Flexible Dual Model -- PART FIVE A CRITIQUE OF ECONOMICS AS APPLIED TO THE WORLD SYSTEM: OPEN ECONOMY AND IMPERIALISM -- 10 International Trade and Imperialism -- Long Cycles and the Internationalization of Markets -- The Role of International Trade -- A Critique of the Theory of International Specialization through Trade -- 11 International Economic Relations from the Point of View of the Theory of Imperialism -- Marx's Approach -- Formation of Financial Capital 'Kf' -- Lenin's Theory of Imperialism -- The U.S. as an Imperialist Economy -- Economic Imperialism -- Strategies of Economic Imperialism -- Productive Chains -- International Zones -- Patents -- Not Only the US -- the Europole in Global Competition -- 12 Imperialism and International Trade in Action.

The North-South, but also the East-West Conflict -- Unequal and Combined Development -- Neoliberalism and Unequal Development, even in Mature Capitalist Countries -- Imperialism and Financialization in the Current Systemic Crisis -- The Productive Fall-Out of Global Competition -- Systemic Crisis and the Use of Keynesian Variants -- U.S. Military Imperialism and the Economy: the Military-Industrial Complex -- The Role of the War Economy -- The Transnational Factors of the Military Economy -- PART SIX SCENARIOS FROM THE SYSTEMIC CRISIS AND THE VALIDITY OF MARX'S SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS FOR THE CRITIQUE OF APPLIED ECONOMICS -- 13 The Post-Fordist Paradigm and the New Industrial Revolution -- On Class Power -- How does the Industrial Revolution Continue? -- The Information Revolution or Third Industrial Revolution -- Fordist Enterprises and the Knowledge Economy -- 14 Socio-Productive Configuration of the Knowledge Economy -- The Knowledge Economy in a Society that Manages Communications -- Society and Immaterial Processes in Knowledge Economies: A Marxist Approach -- The Value of Knowledge or Value Originated by Knowledge -- 15 The Dynamics and Implementation of Economic Policies in the Global Competition -- The System of International Political-Economic Dominance -- The Market of Global Financial Capital -- Tools for 'Economic Interdependence,' i.e., Strategies to Enforce Dependency in Global Competition -- Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) as Political Strategies of Neoliberal Globalization -- Goals, Measures and Interventions through the SAP -- Monetary Policy -- Consequences of the Application of Neoliberal Policies -- 16 The New Composition of the World of Labour and the Construction of an Anti-capitalist Social Bloc -- The Modern Proletariat in the New Capital-Labour Contradiction.

Structural Unemployment and Precariousness as a Characteristic of the Post-Fordist System -- Inside the Crisis of the System: Pulling Together the Threads of the Capital-Labour Conflict at the International Dimension -- PART SEVEN CAPITAL AGAINST NATURE -- 17 How Capital Destroys Humanity -- An 'Unnatural' Globalization of Capital -- The Consumer Society and Quantitative Development -- 18 Market 'Sustainable Development' in the Dynamics of the Quantitative Development of Capital -- What is Sustainable Development? How, Why and for Whom? -- The Limits of a Growth Without Progress, Without Self-Determined Sustainable Development -- 19 Capital Destroys and then Measures -- The Cursed GDP -- The So-Called Alternative Indicators and Environmental Laws. But What "Green Perspective"? -- Non-Alternative Macroeconomic Indicators -- Statistical Indicators for Measuring Environmental Impact -- Environmental Laws, Monitoring Tools for Management Analyses -- 20 'Clean' Energies of Capitalism: Agro-Fuels and Planned Crimes Against Humanity -- Producing Energy from Food: the Monstrosity of Growth -- Examples of Leadership and Anti-Leadership -- 21 Brief Conclusions: The Struggles of Grassroots Movements and an Economic Socio-Ecological Political Theory for a Development Outside the Market -- PART EIGHT CURRENT TRENDS: FROM QUANTITATIVE GROWTH TO THE STRUCTURAL AND SYSTEMIC CRISIS OF CAPITALIST PRODUCTION -- 22 Capitalist Accumulation and its Crises -- The Concept of Crisis -- Schools of Thought on the Theory of Crisis -- The Counteroffensive of Capital -- 23 The Economies' Cyclical Behavior After WWII -- How Do Crises of Underconsumption and Overproduction Arise? -- Cycles and Economic Crises -- The International Character of the Capitalist Cycle during the 1970s and Early 1980s -- The Role of Foreign Trade in the Transmission of the Cycles.

Dependence on Raw Materials, Monetary-Financial Relationship and the Transmission of the Cycle -- The Economic Cycle of the 1980s, Macroeconomic Policy and New Technological Paradigms -- 24 An Attempt to Overcome the Structural and Systemic Crisis: The Solution is a Radical Alternative -- Some Considerations and Interpretations of Neoliberal Globalization -- Globalization as an Objective Process -- Globalization as a Subjective Phenomenon: The Political Project of Neoliberal Globalization turns into Global Competition -- The Proof that Global Competition is the Current Stage of Imperialism -- Aspects of the Current World Economic and Financial Scenario in the Face of the Globalization Myth: The Example of Pension Funds -- The Relevance of Structural and Systemic Crises -- The Radical Alternative Derives from Those Who Do Not and Cannot Pay for the Crisis -- Bibliography -- Index.