1. An introduction to work sharing : a strategy for preserving jobs, creating new employment and improving individual well-being / Jon C. Messenger and Naj Ghosheh -- 2. Work sharing as an alternative to layoffs : lessons from the German experience during the crisis / Lutz Bellmann ... [et al.]...

Governing international taxation : problems and challenges -- The dynamics of global governance -- Politics without conviction : the OECD's failed Harmful Tax Competition initiative -- The financial crisis and the politics of international tax cooperation -- The domestic politics of...

Preface -- 1. Financialisation and the financial and economic crises: theoretical framework and empirical analysis for 15 countries / Nina Dodig, Eckhard Hein and Daniel Detzer -- 2. The crisis of finance-led capitalism in the United States / Trevor Evans -- 3. Monetary adjustment and inflation...

Part I -- Introduction -- 1. The crisis in context / Turan Subasat -- 2. Roots of the current economic crisis: capitalism, forms of capitalism, policies, and contingent events / David M. Kotz -- Part II -- Crisis and profitability -- 3. Crisis theory and the falling rate of profit / David Harvey...

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...