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Book SynopsisThe Global Financial Crisis is a unique investigation into the causes of the most savage economic downturn experienced since the Great Depression. With the advent of this challenging new work, these alternative perspectives should now receive a far closer examination given the unmistakable economic failures endured over the past few years.
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Steven Kates 1. Been There Done That: The Political Economy of Déjà Vu Peter J. Boettke, Daniel J. Smith and Nicholas A. Snow 2. Traditional Monetary Economics vs Keynesianism, Creditism and Base-ism Tim Congdon 3. Can a Progressive Capital Gains Tax Help Avoid the Next Crisis? Public Sector Governance in a Comprehensive Neo-Schumpeterian System Horst Hanusch and Florian Wackermann 4. The Great Recession and its Aftermath from a Monetary Equilibrium Theory Perspective Steven G. Horwitz and William J. Luther 5. Policy in the Absence of Theory: The Coming World of Political Economy without Keynes Steven Kates 6. Hindsight on the Origins of the Global Financial Crisis? Steve Keen 7. Four Theses on the Global Financial Crisis J.E. King 8. Monetary Policies During the Financial Crisis: An Appraisal Mervyn K. Lewis 9. After the Crash of 2008: Financial Reform in an Age of Plutocracy Robert E. Prasch 10. The New Institutional Economics and the Global Financial Crisis Martin Ricketts 11. Economics in the Mirror of the Financial Crisis Rodolfo Signorino 12. Human Resources: The Key to Institutional Economics after the Great Recession Charles J. Whalen 13. What Should a Financial System Do? Minskian Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis L. Randall Wray Index
