prosperity depends first of all on the importance and variety of investment opportunities opened up by them, whereas crisis … crisis is unlikely to reach the gravity of the Great Depression not only because a price fall is to excluded, but also …

The article considers the situation of Italy in the wake of the international financial and economic crisis. It is in …

. In the current US crisis, monetary policy, in the shape of quantitative easing and historically low rates of interest … been public spending that has played the key role to avoid a deeper crisis than the one that actually took place. …

The article synthesises the large and extending literature on the financial and economic crisis from a Post …, but yet they are not the cause of the crisis or of its tremendous dimension. The flawed and insufficient regulation of … finance is the prime cause of the crisis, as well as it is one of the main hindrances to expansionary macroeconomic policies …

possible role and scope of Keynesian policies, suggesting specific remedies to Italy’s current crisis. It then shortly reviews …

alternatives to tackle the euro crisis while neglecting and abstaining from criticising their underlying rationale. This ‘retreat …

Some recent articles explain the Asian crisis almost exclusively in terms of "fundamentals". The role played by private …