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Events in global financial markets and macroeconomies in the past four years have been a strong reminder that most contemporary analysis of these events is ad hoc and not guided by a coherent theory of capitalist crisis as a guide to understanding unfolding events. This book helps to close this gap by presenting essays about the precarious state of the global economy by economists for whom crisis is a logical consequence of capitalist growth. This “crisis theory” perspective has shaped the thinking of the Japanese Society of Political Economy (JSPE) since its founding, and has been especially prominent in the presentations by JSPE members and foreign guests at annual JSPE conferences since the turn of the century. Gathered together here are chapters based on conference presentations made from 2001 to the present. Before presenting a brief chapter-by-chapter overview of these contributions, this …