Transformações e ônus social do capitalismo: breve olhar sobre as crises econômicas

Abstract

The present work aims to present a brief analysis of the crisis of capitalism in recent centuries, especially the last one, started with the collapse of the housing market (subprime crisis) in the United States of America (2008), the Great Depression (1929), the oil crisis (1970’s) and others related to the great expeditions carried out in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We tried to take into account, moreover, the social effects triggered by the recent crisis and the worldwide policy measures. Despite the minor attention the subject has received by historians, we seek to dialogue with recent productions of different areas of knowledge such as economics, geography, sociology and others.