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RAPOPORT, Mario  e  BRENTA, Noemí. La crisis económica mundial: ¿El desenlace de cuarenta años de inestabilidad?. Prob. Des [online]. 2010, vol.41, n.163, pp.7-30. ISSN 0301-7036.

World economic crises express the tensions of a system of accumulation impossible to resolve through the normal functioning of the system. The crash of 1929 was followed by a depression definitively overcome through the enormous cost of the Second World War. Following the post-war expansion, the crisis of the 1970s registered an inflection point. From then on successive crises were repeated periodically for the next four decades, with short lapses of recovery, until the outbreak of2007. This paper reviews the present crisis in the light of those 40 years, analyzing the relevant cycles and structural conditioning, the changes in economic thinking and interests at play, the regularities and divergences of the crises since 1929, the main forces in conflict and the future trends now being fuelled.

Palavras-chave : crises; cycles économiques; crise financière; euro; dollar; Chine.