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**Longlisted for the 2023 Cundill History Prize**

The Second Slump keyword-aung-san-suu-kyi he adapts an old ideaNamed by Choice as an 'Academic Book of the Year' for 1979, The Second Slump locates the 1970s recession in the context of the theory and history of capitalist crises. It argues that the slump, unlike the earlier one of 1929 32, is marked by a high level of organization by the working class in the developed capitalist countries, and that it is fundamentally a crisis of over production, in which the oil price rises of 1973 played only a secondary role.