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John bellamy foster and fred magdoff s book on the great financial crisis is an excellent example for the usefulness of studying marxs works and that of other marxist political economists, e. A financial crisis is a situation in which the value of financial institutions or assets drops rapidly. Unlike the massive fiscal response which alleviated the. Good to great forces business leaders and entrepreneurs to examine the foundational elements of their businesses precisely the sort of thinking needed during times of economic crisis. It is considered by many economists to have been the most serious financial crisis since the great depression of the 1930s the crisis began in 2007 with a depreciation in the subprime mortgage market in the united states, and it developed into an international banking. Book 3 financial markets and products chapter 1 duration.
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