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Capitalism without Capital

Accounting for the crash

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  • © 2015

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  1. Alan Shipman

    1. Open University, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Alan Shipman
    Pages 1-7

  3. An Obvious Excess of Capital

    • Alan Shipman
    Pages 9-26

  4. A Still More Obvious Excess: Capital as Wealth

    • Alan Shipman
    Pages 27-50

  5. In Practice It’s Scarce

    • Alan Shipman
    Pages 51-69

  6. What Isn’t There? Capital Definitions and Measurements

    • Alan Shipman
    Pages 71-92

  7. The Destination of Wealth

    • Alan Shipman
    Pages 93-122

  8. Economics without Capital

    • Alan Shipman
    Pages 123-138

  9. Economies without Capital

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    Pages 139-168

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 169-180
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Financial crisis, recession and worsening inequality have long been blamed on a surplus of capital. But the actions that led the latest boom and bust by banks and businesses, households and governments - can better be explained capital's increasing scarcity. Efforts to track it down confirm its disappearance.

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  • Open University, UK

    Alan Shipman

About the author

Educated long enough ago to have encountered the unsolved problems of capital theory, Alan Shipman left economic research to pursue business journalism, financial analysis, freelance writing and bicycle maintenance before returning to economics in 2008 to find out why the problems still hadn't been solved.

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