factories in Germany during Second World War 269; closure of Dagenham Assembly plant 259
Ford, Henry 35
"Fordism", theory of 164; critique of 164
Foreign Direct Investment, destinations 183; stocks, concentrated in developed countries 263; shares of different state 263; flows 1982-2006, growth of stock 1950-2007 255; not mainly on new productive capacity 261; low proportion of total US investment in recent decades 260
Formal employment 339
Former USSR, growth in 1990s 225
Forrester, Viviane quoted 258
Foster, John Bellamy 81; on peak oil 318
Fragmentation among slum dwellers 344-5
France, fall in industrial production in slump 143; economic output 1940s to 1970s 161; during long boom 170; cuts in public expenditure 240; imperialism in Africa after decolonisation 1 85; conflicting interests with US in Africa and Middle East 274
Frankenstein's monster 85
Free labour, partial negation of 175
"Freeing" of labour 40
Freeman, Alan, on unproductive labour 127
Freeman, Richard, figures on global workforce, critique of 390
Friedman, Milton 300; popularity of ideas after crisis of mid 1970s 192; denounced as Keynesian 194
Fukuyama, Francis, and "end to history" 258
GS meeting in Rostock 2007 309
Galbraith, John Kenneth 202; on planning during long boom 168-9
Garcia, Miguel Angel 49
General Electric, reliance of finance for profits 284-5
General Motors, and financial profits 284; in crisis in 2009 290
General Theory of Employment,
Interest and Money (John Maynard Keynes) 149
George Bush senior, on New World Order 258
Georgian attack on Ossetia, 2008, 319; role of US 274
German capitalism, economic growth and profits in 1990s and early 2000s 240
German Ideology (Marx and Engels) quoted 81
German unification, economic efects 239
Germany, industrial output in 1920s 144; beginning of crisis in 1 928 148; fall in industrial production 1929- 33 143; economic recovery of mid and late 1 930s 155; seizure of western Poland 156; state planning during two world wars 1 15; West Germany during long boom 164, 170; economic output 1947-70 161; increase in share of global output 198; unemployment 1957, 1960 172; East Germany, crisis of 1953 179; unification, economic effects 239, and Croatian Independence 270; Social Democrat-Green government 240; fall in real wages 240; world's biggest exporter 239
Ghana 185
Giddens, Anthony 325
Gillman, Joseph 146
Global character of capital's destructiveness in 21st century 316
Global crisis, national solutions to in 1930s and today 302-3
Global Gamble, The (Peter Gowan) 293
Global South 18, 91; in long boom 182-201; state capitalism and economic growth 1 90; economic growth, unevenness of 189; and end of long boom 217-225; impact of collapse of Keynesian and Stalinisteconomic models 217-8; terms of trade 218; negotiations with multinationals 222; debt 223; inability of poor countries to attract investment 222 see also Third World, Emerging markets
"Globalisation" 258, 260, 261, 264, 266, 267, 277, 281, 298, 301, 325,
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