Introduction -- 1. Financial globalization since the 1970s -- 2. Financial instabilities and trends in the 1980s -- 3. Financial instabilities and trends in the 1990s -- 4. The 2007- crisis: common patterns and new thinking -- 5. A human ecology economics (HEE) framework for the analysis of...

This timely and authoritative book explains the rise and fall of economies in Asia, Central America and Europe since 1980 and discusses these crises in the context of continuing economic globalization. This updated and fully revised edition includes a detailed account of the Mexican crisis of...

Nobel Prize winner James Tobin has made outstanding contributions to modern macroeconomics. In this final collection of his work he examines the economic policies of the United States and its relations with other major economies after 1990. In James Tobin's view, the welfare of populations...

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What are the long-term causes and consequences of the global financial crisis of 2007-2008? This book offers a fresh perspective on these issues by bringing together a range of academics from law, history, economics and business to look in more depth at the changing relationships between crises...

1. Insights for today's trying economic times / Robert M. Whaples and G. Page West III -- 2. Insights from Walter Bagehot / Perry Mehrling -- 3. Insights from Thorstein Veblen / Robert Prasch -- 4. Insights from John Maynard Keynes / Bradley Bateman -- 5. Insights from the Great Depression /...

Contents: Part I: The crisis and the mainstream theory -- 1. A brief description of the crisis -- 2. The mainstream economists and the crisis -- 3. The limits of the mainstream theory -- Part II: An alternative theoretical approach -- 4. Keynes and the monetary theory of production -- 5. Finance...

Contents: 1. Introduction By Charles A. E. Goodhart and Dimitrios P. Tsomocos -- 2. "Principles for Macroprudential Regulation", (A.K. Kashyap, D.P. Tsomocos and A.P. Vardoulakis), Banque de France Financial Stability Review, No.18, pp. 173-182, April -- 3. "The Macroprudential Toolkit", (R....