TY - BOOK AU - Magdoff,Fred AU - Yates,Michael TI - The ABC's of the economic crisis: what working people need to know SN - 9781583671955 (pbk.) AV - HC106.83 .M337 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Monthly Review Press KW - Financial crises KW - United States KW - Working class KW - Economic conditions KW - Economic policy KW - 2001-2009 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The calm before the storm -- What makes capitalism tick -- Capitalist economies are prone to crises -- Mature capitalism's concentration of production and slow growth -- Can the tendency to slow growth be overcome? -- Economic stagnation sets in following the Second World War -- Neoliberalism -- The financial explosion : introduction -- How did it happen? -- The explosion of debt -- The great unraveling -- The government to the rescue? -- Summary and conclusions ER -