<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Economic Growth and the Nanotechnology Priority: The Challenge of Economic Crisis and Industrial Concentration </span><span>argues that the nanometer scale would revolutionize and advance sources of economic growth to its highest and best use in history. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>

"Financial crisis" is sometimes regarded as synonymous with "economic crisis", but this is an oversimplification and risks missing the feedback loops between the financial and real economies. In this paper, the role of money is revisited in the context of distinguishing the real economy from the...

Since the 1980s, the US has developed a form of finance-led capitalism in which growth has been highly dependent on credit expansion and asset bubbles. Profitability has steadily climbed, and there has been a massive redistribution of income in favour of the top 1% of income earners. But the...