Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The global capitalist crisis and its aftermath on a world scale / Berch Berberoglu -- Ch. 1. The contours of the Marxist Debate on the Global Capitalist Crisis / David Thurston Martin -- Ch. 2. The global capitalist crisis: its origins, dynamics and impact on the United States / Berch Berberoglu -- Ch. 3. The Great Recession of 2008 and the continuing global capitalist crisis / William I. Robinson -- Ch. 4. The global financial crisis: a crisis of capital or for labor? / James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer -- Ch. 5. The global capitalist crisis and the 2008 financial meltdown in the United States / Levin Welch -- Ch. 6. The impact of the global capitalist crisis on the Eurozone / David L. Elliott -- Ch. 7. Japan's long stagnation and the global capitalist crisis: the onset of inter-state rivalry? / Bill Lucarelli -- Ch. 8. The continuing global capitalist crisis and the transition to state-neoliberalism in Chine / Alvin Y. So -- Ch. 9. Russia and the global capitalist crisis / David M. Kotz -- Ch. 10. Latin America and the epochal crisis of capitalism / Luis Arizmendi and Gordon Welty -- Ch. 11. Africa rising or African uprising? : the impact of the global capitalist crisis on Africa / Patrick Bond -- Ch. 12. The structural crisis of global capitalism and the porspects for world revolution in the twenty-first Century / Chris Chase-Dunn and Anthony Roberts -- Ch. 13. The global capitalist crisis and the end of empire / Martin Orr -- Conclusion: The global capitalist crisis and class struggle / Berch Berberoglu.

Shed light on the inner workings of global capitalism and the capitalist globalization process that has led to the growth and development of capitalism from the national to the global level, this groundbreaking volume provides critical analyses of the causes and consequences of the Great Recession of 2008-2009.