Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Nineteenth Century: Framework Stimulants, Destructive Competition and the Making of Oligopoly Capitalism; 2. Working-Class Resistance, the State-Supported Capitalist Response, the Mechanization of Industry and the Defeat of Organized Labor; 3. The 1920s: The Dynamics of Mature Industrial Capitalism; 4. The 1930s and the Great Depression; 5. The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age; 6. The New Financialization: Debt, Investment and the Financialized Firm
7. The Landscape of Austerity: Polarization, the Destruction of Jobs and the Emerging Police State8. Conclusion; Appendix A: Economic Maturity and Disaccumulation -- A Mildly Wonkish Summation; Appendix B: What Keynes Really Prescribed; Bibliography; Index
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This is the history of the development of the profoundly undemocratic American Capitalism.