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...

1. 'Destruction ... and misery' : the First World War -- 2. The Great Depression, 1929-33 -- 3. The Second World War as an economic disaster -- 4. The rise, fall and rise again of OPEC -- 5. Inflation in the twentieth century -- 6. Financial crises -- 7. Stock market crashes -- 8. The demise of...

Introduction : the attributes of the crisis / David Bailey, Dan Coffey, Philip R. Tomlinson -- The workings of the Japanese economy / Donald W. Katzner -- The cause of Japan's recession and the lessons for the world / Richard A. Werner -- Transnational monopoly capitalism, the J-mode firm and...

pt. 1. ASEAN economic development and cooperation before the crisis -- pt. 2. ASEAN external economic relations -- pt. 3. The 1997 Asian crisis and its aftermath -- pt. 4. Future ASEAN economic cooperation and challenges.

1. Introduction : catch-up -- 2. Export-oriented growth : positive aspects -- 3. Institutionalizing an export-oriented regime -- 4. Trade pattern in the early phase of catch-up -- 5. The engine of catch-up : big conglomerates -- 6. Growth and equity -- 7. Experiences of East Asian NICs -- 8. The...

1. Crisis, structural change and new conditions for growth / Lennart Schön -- 2. Responding to economic crisis : macroeconomic revolutions in the 1930s and 1970s / Roger E. Backhouse -- 3. The efficient-markets hypothesis after the crisis : a methodological analysis of the evidence / Fredrik...

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 /...

1. The rapidly changing world economy -- 2. The great recession -- 3. Global finance and payments imbalances -- 4. The role of monetary policy -- 5. The post-crisis world -- 6. China's prospects and challenges -- 7. The US external position -- 8. The redback, the greenback and the troubled euro...

Contents: Preface -- Part I Classical competition: theory, evidence, and criticism -- 1. François Quesnay: Circular flow and input-output -- 2. Adam Smith: The 'invisible hand' and accumulation -- 3. Adam Smith II: The 'invisible hand' and 'natural prices' -- 4. David Ricardo: Prices,...