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Microsoft Harry Shutt must be the Reggie Perrin of orthodox economy. It
seems he's done the sums and they don't add up... and now he's gone
awol. The critique and conclusions in The Decline of
Capitalism are strikingly Marxist.
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Laptop Computers On page two Shutt lays out the case for the prosecution.
Capitalism has: left the economy in deepening stagnation; created
widespread economic insecurity - witness the collapse of private
pension schemes and the creation of a permanent 'underclass';
increasingly marginalised poor countries containing 80 percent of
the world's population, leading to financial and environmental
catastrophe, civil war and mass emigration; produced frequent
crises in liberalised financial markets, caused by stagnation and
insecurity and linked to growing incidents of fraud and organised
crime.
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Laptop Computer 'A more functional alternative would inevitably entail phasing
out the wasteful diversion of economic value... into the pockets of
a small minority', is the solution Shutt proposes to the problems
created by competitive accumulation of wealth. In seizing surplus
wealth and ploughing it back into further production capitalists
hold down the rate of consumption while raising output. This
creates the crisis of overproduction, which we know as the business
cycle, or 'boom and bust'.
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Desktop Computer In a later chapter Shutt points out the other key fault of
capitalism. As technology progresses, capitalists invest less in
workers (who produce value) and more in technology (which doesn't).
Applied across the economy this leads to a general decline in the
rate of profit. Capital cannot be profitably recycled and tends to
be used for speculation. There's a wonderfully instructive table in
his chapter 'The Deluge Postponed'. As the stock market index
rises, the price/earnings ratio increases, while the actual
dividend steadily declines.
Notebooks In recent times capitalism developed two strategies for dealing
with these problems. One was the post-war consensus, involving
large-scale intervention in the economy, and massive spending on
the military machines. The system broke down because it was not
able to overcome capitalism's fundamental problems.
Lenovo The alternative was supposed to be 'monetarism'. Tax cutting and
deregulation were intended to 'unleash the forces of enterprise'
and therefore stimulate growth and prosperity. The strategy also
failed spectacularly.
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Loosening up regulations encourages financiers to make risky
investments, underwritten largely by the state. This creates
long-term public sector deficits, making it difficult to sustain
public services, which is handy for private investors looking for
new markets, as these services are soon privatised (maintained by
yet more public subsidy).
Travelstar Someone once commented that Karl Marx's Capital read like
a gothic novel. The Decline of Capitalism has a similar feel
- from zombie companies kept afloat by subsidies, to shark
conglomerates that stay alive by feeding on smaller concerns. The
leitmotivs of fraud and desperation crop up again and again.
Companies like Enron, Worldcom and Parmalat defraud investors with
state complicity while governments manipulate employment, inflation
and growth figures to sustain market confidence.
Gateway In 'Beyond the Cataclysm' Shutt lays out his alternative: public
ownership and control of industry, cancellation of debt, a Tobin
tax of sorts and redistribution of wealth. He is vague upon what
new 'criteria' would be used to stimulate industry or how they
would be implemented. I would suggest that's why he underestimates
the scope of the anti-capitalist movement.
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