Download or read book The Great Recession written by Michael Roberts and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Recession of 2008-9 was the worst slump in the world economy since the Great Depression in the 1930s. Michael Roberts forecast that it would happen a few years before and in this book he explains why the Great Recession happened - relying on Marx's analysis of the laws of motion in a capitalist economy. And he makes predictions of whether and when it could happen again.