Re: [OPE] Costas interviewed, "Economic crisis the new 1929 or the new Japan?"

From: Paul Zarembka (zarembka@buffalo.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2008 - 21:32:52 EDT


Lapavitsas also has an very informative interview in "International 
Socialism", Winter 2008, on "The Credit Crunch".  He argues in part that 
the current crisis departs from what Marx envisioned and he analyzes why.

Paul

--On 4/7/2008 7:35 PM -0400 Gerald Levy wrote:

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> *Economic crisis: the new 1929 or the new Japan?*
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> Feature by Costas Lapavitsas, April 2008
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> *Costas Lapavitsas is an economist at the School of Oriental and African
> Studies in London. He has written extensively on Marxist theories of
> finance. He spoke to Socialist Review and answered questions on
> historical parallels with the current economic crisis and its impact.
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> *Many mainstream economic commentators are comparing the current economic
> crisis to the one that hit Japan in the late 1980s, which saw the country
> stagnate for 15 years. How strong are the similarities?*

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