Teori krisis, menyangkut sebab^[1] dan akibat penekanan tingkat laba menuju kejatuhan dalam sistem kapitalis, diasosiasikan dengan kritik ekonomi politik Marxian, dan kemudian dipopulerisasikan melalui ekonomi Marxis. Analisis awal oleh Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi memberikan sugesti pertama dari akar sistemik Krisis.^[2][3][4]

1. ^ 'The causes of crises' in Rudolf Hilferding [1981] 'Finance Capital' RKP p.257
2. ^ "An Introduction to the Study of Crisis by Kuruma Samezō 1929". 
3. ^ Isaac Illyich Rubin [1979] 'Sismondi as a Critic of Capitalism', Chapter 37 in A History of Economic Thought, InkLinks, London
4. ^ J. C. L. Sismonde de Sismondi 'New Principles of Political Economy: Of Wealth in Its Relation to Population Trans. Richard Hyse 1991 Transaction Publishers, Rutgers - The State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey'

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