[New post] Capitalism Loses Against Chimera

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Capitalism Loses Against Chimera

by chidemkurdas

by Chidem Kurdas

Gripes about capitalism go back 150 years and more. In the Communist Manifesto of 1848 Marx and Engels thundered that the specter of revolution haunted Europe, that the periodic reappearance of commercial crises "put on its trial, each time more threateningly, the existence of the entire bourgeois society." They were not the first to assail the system and were followed by numerous others spanning the political spectrum.

Thus the Financial Times recently started a series on  "The Crisis of Capitalism."  Europe suffers from a sovereign debt crisis due to over-spending by governments—why is that the crisis of capitalism? But one should not quibble. It is an old tradition. In the 1998 turmoil brought on by Russia's default on its bonds and the failure of a large hedge fund, commentaries appeared bearing titles such as The Crisis in Global Capitalism, Global Capitalism RIP, Collapse of Capitalism, Who Lost Capitalism? and The Free Market's Crisis of Faith.

I've taken those titles from a response by Michael Boskin, "Capitalism and its Discontents," a classic that rings true 14 years later and merits re-reading.  Read more of this post

chidemkurdas | January 11, 2012 at 4:49 am | Tags: Engels, Financial Crisis, Financial Times, Karl Marx, Michael Boskin | Categories: history, History of Economic Thought | URL: http://wp.me/pmseG-1kl

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