Liberalism in crisis -- Ireland: between development and crisis -- Capital: the triumph of finance -- Europe: between market and diversity -- National politics: governing fragmentation, fragmented governance -- Crisis: the difficult politics of development and liberalism

This contributed volume combines approaches of the current inequality debate with aspects of finance based on profound macroeconomic model analyses. Research on inequality has had a long tradition in economics. With the financial crisis from 2007, not only output decreased tremendously, but also...