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1 online resource (344 pages) |
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Front Cover; The Global Economic Crisis; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface by Malcolm Sawyer; The global economic crisis: an introduction Emiliano Brancaccio and Giuseppe Fontana; Part I: The crisis of economic theory; 1. Some contradictions in 'mainstream' interpretations of the crisis and new perspectives in the critique of economic theory and policy: Emiliano Brancaccio; 2. Economy and economics: the twin crises: Alessandro Vercelli; 3. The great recession and the third crisis in economic theory: Riccardo Bellofiore and Joseph Halevi |
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4. As if nothing were going to happen: a search in vain for warnings about the current crisis in economic journals with the highest impact factors impact factors: Andrea Imperia and Vincenzo MaffeoPart II: Labour, distribution andprofit trends; 5. Changes in income distribution, financial disorder and crisis: Aldo Barba and Massimo Pivetti; 6. Income distribution and borrowing: tracking the US economy with a 'New Cambridge' model: Gennaro Zezza; 7. Changes in functional income distribution in Italy and Europe: Antonella Stirati |
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8. Low wages, consumer credit and the crisis: a monetary theory of production approach: Guglielmo Forges Davanzati and Riccardo Realfonzo9. Back to the future?The tendency of the (maximum) rate of profit to fall: empirical evidence and theory: Stefano Perri; Part III: International economic relations; 10. The international circuit of key currencies and the global crisis: is there scope for reform?: Lilia Costabile; 11. Globalization and the great crisis: Ernesto Screpanti |
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12. The global crisis in low- and middle-income countries: how the IMF responded: Andrea F. Presbitero and Alberto Zazzaro13. Notes on Europe, German mercantilism and the current crisis: Sergio Cesaratto; Part IV: The theory ofeconomic policy; 14. Privitization, reproduction and crisis: the case of utilities: Bruno Bosco; 15. Property rights in the knowledge economy: an explanation of the crisis: Ugo Pagano and Maria Alessandra Rossi; 16. Employment and income distribution from a classical-Keynesian point of view: Some tools to ground a normative analysis: Enrico Bellino; Index |
| Summary |
This collection puts forward promising reinterpretations of the primary schools of heterodox political economy, stringent critiques of the conventional readings of the recession, new schemes of theoretical and empirical analysis of the crisis, and proposals for economic policies alternative to those hitherto adopted |
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Print version record |
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Financial crises -- Congresses
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Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Congresses
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Economics -- Congresses
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Congresses
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Economics
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Financial crises
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Globalization -- Economic aspects
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Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fontana, Giuseppe
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| ISBN |
9780203816721 |
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0203816722 |
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