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    The Handbook of the Political Economy of Financial Crises by Wolfson, Martin H.; Epstein, Gerald A.;

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 21 February 2013

    • ISBN 9780199757237
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages784 pages
    • Size 234x156x41 mm
    • Weight 1266 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    The Great Financial Crisis that began in 2007-2008 reminds us with devastating force that financial instability and crises are endemic to capitalist economies. This Handbook describes the theoretical, institutional, and historical factors that can help us understand the forces that create financial crises.

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    The Great Financial Crisis that began in 2007-2008 reminds us with devastating force that financial instability and crises are endemic to capitalist economies that lack powerful and dynamically changing financial regulations that can keep the powerful forces of leverage and credit within sustainable bounds. Economists from Marx to Keynes, and Minsky to Kindleberger have well understood this profoundly important fact, yet the dominant mainstream economics of "rational expectations", "efficient markets" and "laissez-faire" that rationalized widespread financial liberalization and still dominates the economics profession has gotten it, literally, "dead wrong". This Handbook of The Political Economy of Financial Crises describes the theoretical, institutional, and historical factors that can help us understand the forces that create financial crises - with an emphasis on the crisis of 2007- 2008 - and the strengths and weaknesses of varying theoretical perspectives and policy approaches that have tried to comprehend and limit these financial tsunamis.

    Many leading critics of the capitalist financial system address the causes of the recent great financial crisis and measures to reform it. They emphasize the political economy of financial problems, with much analysis grounded in the theoretical framework of Marx, Keynes, and more recently Hyman Minsky. In this book, the contributors appear to strongly agree that there have been enormous costs from abandoning this framework in favor of the neoliberal ideals of efficient markets, maximization of shareholder wealth, and inherently stable markets. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    1. Gerald A. Epstein and Martin H. Wolfson
    PART I: THE GREAT FINANCIAL CRISIS: U.S. DYNAMICS AND EFFECTS
    2. The Origins of the U.S. Financial Crisis of 2007: How a House Price Bubble, a Credit Bubble, and Regulatory Failure Caused the Greatest Economic Disaster Since the Great Depression.
    Marc Jarsulic
    3. Speculation and Asset Bubbles
    Dean Baker
    4. The Great Recession's Impact on Jobs, Wages, and Incomes
    Josh Bivens and Heidi Shierholz
    5. Distribution and Crisis: Reviewing Some of the Linkages
    Arjun Jayadev
    6. Housing Markets and Foreclosures
    Rachel Drew and Christian Weller
    PART II: THEORETICAL APPROACHES FOR UNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL CRISES
    7. The Realism of Assumptions Does Matter: Why Keynes-Minsky Theory Must Replace Efficient Market Theory as the Guide to Financial Regulation Policy
    James Crotty
    8. Political Economy Approaches to Financial Crisis: Hyman Minsky's Financial Fragility Hypothesis
    Jan Kregel
    9. An Institutional Theory of Financial Crises
    Martin H. Wolfson
    10. The Anatomy of Financial and Economic Crisis
    Duncan K. Foley
    PART III: THE GLOBAL DIMENSIONS OF FINANCIAL CRISES
    11. The Economic and Financial Crisis of 2008-2010: The International Dimension
    Ajit Singh
    12. Global Imbalances and the International Monetary System: Problems and Proposals
    Jane D'Arista and Korkut Erturk
    13. How the Full Opening of the Capital Account to Highly Liquid and Unstable Financial Markets Led Latin America to Two and a Half Cycles of 'Mania, Panic and Crash'
    José Gabriel Palma
    14. Financial and Currency Crises in Latin America
    Mario Damill, Roberto Frenkel and Martin Rapetti
    15. The Asian Financial Crisis, Financial Restructuring and the Problem of Contagion
    C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
    16. Speculation and Sovereign Debt - An Insidious Interaction
    Gerald Epstein and Pierre Habbard
    17. Whither the Euro? History and Crisis of Europe's Single-Currency Project
    Robert Guttmann and Dominique Plihon
    18. The Eurozone Crisis through the Prism of World Money
    Costas Lapavitsas
    PART IV: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF FINANCIAL CRISES
    19. Changes in the Postwar Global Economy
    David M. Kotz
    20. Bank Lending and the Subprime Crisis
    Gary Dymski
    21. Deregulation and the New Financial Architecture
    Damon Silvers
    22. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Banking
    Jennifer S. Taub
    23. Derivatives in the Crisis and Financial Reform
    Michael Greenberger
    24. From Innovation to Financialization: How Shareholder Value Ideology is Destroying the US Economy
    William Lazonick
    25. Financialization and the Global Economy
    Engelbert Stockhammer
    26. The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time
    William K. Tabb
    PART V: POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE TO LIMIT FINANCIAL CRISES
    27. International and Regional Cooperation for Dealing with Financial Crises
    Jose Antonio Ocampo
    28. Productive Incoherence in a Time of Crisis: The IMF and the Resurrection of Capital Controls
    Ilene Grabel
    29. The Japanese Boom and Bust: "Lean " and "Clean " Lessons
    Robert McCauley
    30. The Role of the Federal Reserve: Lender of Last Resort
    Chris Rude
    31. Monetary Policy and Central Banking after the Crisis: The Implications of Rethinking Macroeconomic Theory
    Thomas I. Palley
    32. The Bailout of the "Too Big to Fail " Banks: Never Again
    Fred Moseley
    33. The Savings and Loan Crisis and Bailout: Lessons for Policy
    Dorene Isenberg
    34. Pension Policies to Minimize Future Economic Crises
    Teresa Ghilarducci
    35. A Minskian Road to Financial Reform
    Randall Wray
    36. The Global Financial Crisis and Africa: The Effects and Policy Responses
    Zuzana Brixiova and Léonce Ndikumana
    37. Beyond Capitalism?
    Minqi Li

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