Production, consumption and crisis

Abstract

It is a feature of most theories of capitalist crises, choose a variable as generating center of the difficulties faced by the dynamics of capital accumulation. Analytic cuts are contributing to a better understanding of the behavior of important variables such as, for example, investment and consumption. In this paper the proposal is to highlight the importance of focus that includes a look at the relationship between these variables were not as pure phenomena, but as a manifestation of the structural elements of the system of capitalist production, which could provide breakthroughs in understanding the process of capital accumulation, and, consequently, bring light to the behaviorofthesevariables.