is even applicable. Since policy makers have to understand the roots and the dimension of the crisis in order to seize … to make sure that the roots of the crisis are similar. So this paper addresses the question: Is the current financial … crisis similar to the Great Depression? For that purpose I will systematically compare the Great Recession with the Great …

Desai, R. and A. Freeman. 2001. ‘Value and Crisis Theory in the “Great Recession”’. World Review of Political Economy. Vol 2 … crisis. Focusing on recent discussions of “financialisation”, in particular a recent paper by Costas Lapavitsas, this article … factors in the crisis. In value terms, financialisation is a withdrawal from the sphere of production into the sphere of …

period until the financial crisis? Did commercial banks respect capital requirements? The two questions are strictly … dealers, mutual funds, etc.) that steadily increased until the crisis. Its effects over real economy could be investigated in …

Every bigger economic crisis, as the current one, leaves behind a huge material damage to the world economy, and to …, Bulgaria and Montenegro) during pre-global economic crisis was based mainly on foreign demand and capital inflows which created … external shocks. But, the crisis reshapes the world economic map. Competition on world markets gets new forms and players. The …

measures of crisis-proof policy and crisis-proof behavior are suggested. …