Structural Polycrises of the 1970s–2020s: Decadal Crises, Debt Crises, GFC, Eurocrisis, Coronacrisis, and Climate Crisis

Phillip Anthony O’Hara
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Chapter Chapter 9 in Long Waves of Growth, Hegemonic Power, and Climate Change in the World Economy, 2025, pp 381-427 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter outlines the ongoing and successive polycrises that have emerged from the demise of US (and Western) hegemony and long wave upswing vis-à-vis the deteriorating pathways and circuits of socioeconomic dynamics (CSD). As the hegemony, long wave upswing, and climate moderation underwent contradictory movements, and neoliberalism rose during the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, polycrises got worse, and as neoliberalism went into relative decline during the 2010s, its vestiges helped to precipitate the health crises of the early 2020s. These ongoing polycrises include, for instance, the decadal financial crises and recessions, the global financial crisis (GFC), four waves of debt crises (including the Eurocrisis), the coronacrisis, and the climate crisis. These are the subjects of this chapter (the ongoing crisis associated with the Ukraine/Taiwan anomalies is investigated in Chap. 10). A conclusion follows.

Keywords: Neoliberalism; Structural polycrises; Pathways and circuits of socioeconomic dynamics (CSD); Global Financial Crisis (GFC); Eurodebt crisis; Coronacrisis; Institutions; Technologies and ecologies; Contradictions & crises; Principles; Long waves; Hegemony; Climate change; 1970s–2020s (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-4132-1_9

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