This book investigates the changing nature of economic policies following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009. Well-respected, international scholars come together to discuss the level of economic growth following the crisis, concerns over inequality in industrialised countries, and labour...

I provide a structured comparison of the nineteenth-century classical gold standard and the Euro, basing my analysis heavily on recent research. Both similarities and differences are evident in the historical record. Both regimes were vaunted as engines of convergence, but in both cases...

The focus of this contribution is on financial stability and the extent to which proposed regulatory frameworks deal effectively to avoid financial instability. While microprudential financial stability has been in place prior to and since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), macroprudential...

1. The recent global crises and economic policies for future durable recovery -- 2. State capitalism, government and central bank responses to COVID-19 -- 3. Law and (un)sustainability in the age of the Anthropocene -- 4. Re-thinking macroeconomics after the COVID-19 pandemic -- 5. Productivity,...

Central banks were not always as ubiquitous as they are today. Their functions were circumscribed, their mandates ambiguous, and their allegiances once divided. The inter-war period saw the establishment of twenty-eight new central banks - most in what are now called emerging markets and...

The processes of globalisation and increased economic regionalism have had profound, often destabilising, effects on modern economic and financial systems. In recognition of this fact, the editors of this fine book have collected together a diverse range of heterodox ideas surrounding the...