Internationalisation of system and crisis of 2008-9 301
International mergers, acquisitions and alliances in 1980s and 1990s 256
Investment flows, concentrated in Triad 263
Industrial countries' investment from 1960s to early 2000 (table) 282
Investment, in US in 1920s 146; global 1960-2000s 232; uneven and spasmodic growth of productive in 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s 282; productive at low level in industrial countries in 2000s 287; inflows into US and military power 273; to stop climate change "not possible" 313; resistance to low energy investments 312
Iran 183; economy under Shah 185; in 1979 351
Iran-Iraq War, role of US in 269
Iraq Study Group 274
Iraq War of 2003 319; rationale for 273; cost of to US 274; refusal of France and Germany to back 274
Irag 185
Iraq 185
Ireland, under Fianna Fail, not neocolony 185
Iron law of wages, rejected by Marx 31
Iron rice bowl 244, 340
Israel, last example of old style colonialism 184; attack on Lebanon, 2006 274; and US imperialism 274, 184
Italian knitwear industry 261
Itoh, Makato, and Lapavitsas, Costas, finance and productive capitalists not two separate groups 298
Japan, during long boom 170-1; industrial output 1940s to 1970s 161; fixed investment 1946-61 171; increase in share of global output during long boom 198; growth through 1980s 211; crisis of 1990s 9, 21 1-217, 325; explanations for crisis of 212; rate of profit 212; investment 216; crisis compared with USSR crisis of late 1980s 217; recovery in mid 2000s based on exports of equipment to China; car firms in the US 256, 261 , 281;
growth of working class 1951-98 333
Jayadev, Arjun 294
Jevons, William Stanley 41; on sunspots and economic crises 56
Jiabao, Wen, quoted on instability of Chinese economy 249
"Just in time" production methods 261
Kahn, Richard 162
Karabakh 208
Karachi, Sunni-Shia and inter-ethnic clashes 345
Kautsky, Karl 82, 292; rejects revisionist argument 89; finance capital, industrial capital and war 91-92; ultra-imperialism 92, 185; on colonialism and control of agrarian parts of world 95; on capitalist nationalisation 1 1 5
Keegan, William, 149; criticises Marx 68; and short-termism 294; on superiority of Japanese model 211
Keynes, John Maynard 10; and underconsumptionist theories of crisis 59; causes of slump 145; crisis of 1 930s 1 50; cautious 162; on rentiers 294; liking for version of labour theory of value 44-5; "Animal spirits" 150; declining marginal efficiency of capital 162; socialisation of investment 162
Keynesian measures, seen as reason for long boom 161; rarely used in long boom 163-4; failure of in late 1970s 200-1, 297; in japan in 1990s 215, 216; limited effect of 217; as national solutions 301
Keynesianism 11; as explanation for long boom, 163-5; problems with 1 95; marginalised after 1 970s 193; crisis of 1 91-3; revival during crisis of 2007-9 300; left wing illusions in 303; and neoliberalism today 303; bastard 1 62; radical 1 1
Kidron, Mike, on a world of state capitalisms 104; on Marx and productive and unproductive labour 127; on waste and organic composition of capital 130; on Marx's model and rate of profit 130- 1; on impact of arms spending 165;
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