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Prabhat Patnaik: The Structural Crisis of Capitalism

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by Prabhat Patnaik
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August 3, 2010

There is a very pervasive view that the current capitalist crisis consists exclusively of the financial crisis and, in so far as the financial crisis is now over, the crisis as a whole is over.  This, I believe, is erroneous, and this is because, like Bob Brenner, I also believe that the current financial crisis itself is embedded within a deeper structural crisis of capitalism.  This structural crisis has no signs of getting over, and as a result what we are going to see now is in fact a fairly protracted crisis, a crisis which one would be quite justified even in calling an impasse as far as capitalism is concerned at this moment.  But before that let me try and develop a few things.

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Prabhat Patnaik, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. This lecture was delivered at the panel on “Derivatives & the Capitalist Crisis: What’s New?” at the Rethinking Capitalism conference held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on 8 April 2010. The text above is an edited partial transcript of the lecture.

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11 thoughts on “Prabhat Patnaik: The Structural Crisis of Capitalism”

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  10. A good overview of the current “impasse” of capitalism through mostly well known neoliberal theory …

    Unfortunately this talk deals only with trade and labor theory while ignoring the underlying problem of private central banks using fractional reserve banking.

    His analysis of bubbles was good but ignores the huge bubble underlying these smaller bubbles that represents itself in an aggregate debt of 3.8 times GDP in the US … http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Total-US-Debt-As-A-Percentage-Of-GDP.jpg

    It is the implosion of this mountain of debt is causing our current crisis. As labor is devalued, resources depleted and the environment degraded, debt, future demands on profit become unsustainable. As debt collapses so goes our supply of currency and credit taking the economy along with it.

    The solution is sovereign currencies managed by public utilities that garner the profit and manage the use of credit , worldwide. That and strong tariff policies that protect domestic production, labor rates and the environment …

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