Six Crises of the World Economy: Globalization and Economic Turbulence from the 1970s to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Evidence of six crises -- Chapter 3. Globalization, national economies, and global crises -- Chapter 4. Conceptual issues — Depressions, recessions, crisis cycles, business cycles -- Chapter 5. A world economy -- Chapter 6. Why do crises occur? Causal theories -- Chapter 7. Nature, oil, profits, and crises -- Chapter 8. Long waves and social structures of accumulation -- Chapter 9. COVID-19, the 2020 depression, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine -- Chapter 10. Conclusions.