Marx’s Crisis Theory | Interview w/ Marxist Economists Alan Freeman and Radhika Desai

In this interview we will be studying Marx’s crisis theory, overproduction, the falling rate of profit, and financialization with professors Alan Freeman and Radhika Desai. We will be using as our framework a paper they published in the World Review of Political Economy on the 2008 great recession entitled “Value and Crisis Theory in the ‘Great Recession,’” which could be found here: Dr. Radhika Desai is a Professor at the Department of Political Studies, and Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group at University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She has proposed a new historical materialist approach to understanding world affairs and geopolitical economy based on the materiality of nations. Some of her recent books include Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire (2013), Karl Polanyi and Twenty First Century Capitalism (2020) Revolutions (2020) and Japan’s Secular Stagnation (20