Business as Usual

Paul Mattick, geboren 1944, ist prominenter Kunstkritiker und Professor für Philosophie an der Adelphi University in New York.

'Paul Mattick says the recession isn't just a financial crisis; it manifests a truth about the socioeconomic system in which we live.' - Irish Times 'We highly recommend it - it's a brilliantly comprehensive and yet miraculously short history and analysis of capitalist crisis ... Mattick's book is an essential guide.' - Socialist Standard 'Mattick's book valuably locates the roots of the crisis in the nature of the capitalist system, providing a forceful counter-argument to those liberal-left commentators who have sought to blame the recent crisis on 'greedy bankers', 'neoliberalism' or other manifestations of 'excessive' capitalism, while arguing for a return to a regulated Keynesianism.' - Radical Philosophy 'This lucid and thoughtful study is not just another important contribution to the rapidly expanding literature on the current economic crisis, though it is that as well. With historical depth and penetrating analysis, it seeks to reveal what is "wrong with the mainstream approach to understanding current economic affairs" ... It provides a grimly realistic picture of what may lie ahead unless there is a radical transformation of the social order from production for profit to pursuit of human ends, based on "shared social decision-making outside the constraints of the business economy," hence a major step towards true democracy.' - Noam Chomsky 'Business as Usual is a superb achievement. In this highly accessible book, Paul Mattick offers an outstanding theoretical and empirical account of the ongoing crisis, its devastating implications for the majority, and a brilliant indictment of the failures of mainstream economics at the levels of theory and policy guidance. It also shows how and why these dismal failures should no longer deter the search for transformative alternatives.' - Alfredo Saad-Filho, SOAS, University of London 'For anyone who is unsatisfied with the usual explanations of the current economic crisis - greed and fraud, deregulation,