TAILIEUCHUNG - The Centrality of Money, Credit, and Financial Intermediation in Marx’s Crisis Theory: An Interpretation of Marx’s Methodology

The use of individuals’ credit histories to predict the risk of future loss has become a common practice among automobile and homeowners insurers. The practice has proven to be controversial not only because of concerns about how reliably credit scores may predict risk. Many industry professionals, policymakers, and consumer groups have expressed concern that the practice may pose a significant barrier to economically vulnerable segments of the population in obtaining affordable automobile and homeowners coverage. This study finds evidence that justifies such concerns. . | The Centrality of Money Credit and Financial Intermediation in Marx s Crisis Theory An Interpretation of Marx s Methodology James Crotty 1985 I. Introduction There is a striking paradox that confronts the reader of that part of the modern literature on Marxian crisis theory written in English. On the one hand it is evident that monetary and financial problems have been and continue to be at the very center of the recurring economic crises that have afflicted most capitalist economies in the past fifteen to twenty years. These economies have experienced roller-coaster inflation secular stagnation domestic credit crunches and recurring waves of bankruptcy. Simultaneously the international financial system that guided the general prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s has broken down giving way to a decade of unpredictable disruptive gyrating exchange rates. International debt crises of suffocating magnitude ensnare most of the Third World and a good deal of the Second as well. The business press asks with regularity if an international financial collapse of depression-producing magnitude is very likely or only moderately likely the answer changes from time to time. On the other hand the Marxian crisis theory literature has had very little to say about monetary and financial aspects of capitalist macro-dynamics. Issues of money credit financial intermediation inflation and the institutional structure of domestic and international financial regimes pass almost unnoticed as debate rages intensely around impediments to accumulation in the sphere of production. Yet a well-developed rich monetary and financial theory is essential to the construction of a Marxian theory of accumulation and crisis adequate to comprehend the complex and threatening events of the current The essays by Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy on the state of the . and world economy that have appeared over the years in Monthly Review constitute an important exception to the general absence of .

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