Aftershocks : Economic Crisis and Institutional Choice

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- 1: Diagnosing the Crisis -- A Tale of Two Crises -- A History of Profligate Lending -- The Problem of Social Deflation -- The Crisis as a Paradigm Shift -- 2 Exploring Domestic Policy Space Under Low Growth -- The Significance of Politics -- Troubleshooting Economic Narratives -- Leadership Imperatives for a Post-Crisis World -- Establishing a New Macro-economic Policy Regime -- Varieties of Capitalism -- Varieties of Reform -- 3 Coping with Paradise Lost -- Social Discontent in European Welfare States -- A Crisis of Consumerism -- The Moral Bankruptcy of New Capitalism -- Transcending the European Nation State -- 4 Embedding a New Global Contract? -- The Crisis of Global Governance -- Capitalism 3.0 -- The Global Development Agenda -- The Economic Crisis and Climate Change -- A Stress Test for the Welfare State -- The G2 and the Crisis -- 5 Realigning Europe -- A New European Contract -- Europe's Neo-liberal Bias -- Beyond Lisbon -- The Quest for Vision -- Rekindling the Spirit of Cooperation -- Epilogue -- Overview of the Interviews -- Biographies of the Interviewees -- Biographies of the Editors -- Back Cover.