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vii, 305 pages : 22 cm, Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-305) and index, Pt. I. The Vampire State. 1. Introduction. 2. The Subterranean Underpinnings of the Conventional Wisdom. 3. Capital As Blood: The Macro Level. 4. Capital As Blood: The Micro Level. 5. The State As Vampire. 6. Survival of the Fittest through Market Competition: The Firm. 7. Survival of the Fittest through Market Competition: The Human Species. 8. The Counternarrative of Conscious Adaptation. 9. A Family of Countermetaphors. 10. The Logic and Illogic of Austerity -- Pt. II. Through a Glass Darkly: The Domestic Economy. 11. Selective Mismeasurement. 12. Why Wellbeing Does Not Count. 13. What Will Getting Rid of the Deficit Do for Us? 14. The Alleged Savings Decline. 15. Alternatives to Austerity -- Pt. III. Domestic Financial Structures. 16. Finance: Growing Like a Weed. 17. Bad Information Drives Out Good. 18. The Problem of Financial Dictatorship. 19. Weeds Running Wild: Speculative Frenzies -- Pt. IV. The Global Economy: Costs Exceeding Benefits. 20. Global Overdosing. 21. Overselling the Cure, 22. Upping the Dosage: Free Trade in Finance. 23. Weakening Local Economies -- Pt. V. Constructing the

Author

Block, Fred L.

Publisher

New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781565841932

Subjects

Economics, Finance, Political Science