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Why Do Recessions Happen? – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:

Why capitalism seems inescapable
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Economic planning
   • How Companies Plan The Economy  

GDP + recessions graph
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDP

2008 stats
https://www.investopedia.com/news/10-...

Recessions’ negative effects
https://www.bis.org/publ/work910.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/345/bm...
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral...

Degrowth
https://books.google.com/books?id=mst...
https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/utopia...
https://proteanmag.com/2023/01/15/deg...
https://www.sd-commission.org.uk/data...
https://www.resilience.org/stories/20...

Marxist theory of crises
   • Economic Update: Recession - Capitali...  
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol...

How capitalists profit from crisis (graphs) and inflation
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/201...
https://bnarchives.yorku.ca/414/2/nb_...
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2...

Corporate landlords
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/ma...

JPMorgan Chase stock goes up during 2008
https://www.ft.com/content/45710c36-5...




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