Preise steigen nicht von alleine. Es gibt jemanden, der sie erhöht. Das zu verstehen, ist entscheidend, denn auch im Kapitalismus schafft Sprache Realitäten. Wenn Ökonomen, Unternehmen und die Politik Finanzkrisen als Tsunamis und Stürme bezeichnen, suggerieren sie ihre und unsere...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Year Zero -- 1. Materially Determined Apocalypse -- 2. The Three Orders of Apocalypse -- 3. The Double Helix of Dissatisfaction -- 4. Production Spiral -- 5. Consumption Spiral -- 6. Banquets of Worlds -- 7. Clash of Axioms -- Notes --...

After the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, more than a dozen countries undertook aggressive privatization programs. Proponents of economic reform championed such large-scale efforts as the fastest, most reliable way to make the transition from a state-run to a...

"In the 1950s and 60s, Spain underwent one of the most rapid processes of economic development the world had ever seen. Most existing analyses of these process explain the "Spanish Miracle" as a product of the unleashing of market forces and of changes in economic policy made by the Franco...