This definitive article investigates the mechanisms and causes of recessions and depressions, and their relation to the more spectacular financial crises which announce them. It demonstrates how the concept of the Monetary Expression of Labour Time (MELT) allows us to understand the most difficult aspect of this relation, namely how money acquires value, and thereby serves, under definite conditions which characterise recessions and depressions, as self-expanding value, so becoming an alternative use of capital to production
Cite as: Freeman, A. 2016. ‘The Whole of the Storm: Money, debt and crisis in the current long depression’. Marxism 21, Volume 13 No. 2, pp190-224, July 2016.
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