The work focuses on the interpretation of the Great Recession from some assumptions from classical economics and, in particular, the theories of D. Ricardo, K. Marx and complement J.A. Schumpeter. It defends the importance of analyzing the crisis based on indicators that are generally considered to have little of conventional economics: the endogenous nature of the crisis, the evolution of the rate of profit and observation the trend in capital productivity.

KEY WORDS:
Great Recession, inequality, american economics, rate of profit, capital productivity, regulation’s theory, Ricardo, Marx, Schumpeter.ECONOMIA CLASICA