Die Finanzkrise 2009 hat zu heftigen Diskussionen über die enge Verflechtung politischer Macht und ökonomischer Interessen geführt. Dass diese "normal" und die Krise weder einmalig ist noch die letzte ihrer Art, daran lassen die 27 Beiträge renommierter Autorinnen und Autoren keinen Zweifel....

"Most measures of the American economy over the past two centuries or so produce a jagged sine wave--"irrationally exuberant" highs leading to painful lows. Bubbles lead to panics, over and over again. Payne has written a short book on the 1920s to demonstrate to undergraduates how this pattern...

"Collateral damaged" explains how America had turned from a nation of savers into a nation of consumers addicted to debt. Wall Street then used that addiction to create "toxic securities" that threaten to bring about the collapse of the global economy. How can America get its fiscal house in...