In the long aftermath of the acute global financial crisis of 2008/09, the need to get economies back on track and to handle high levels of public and private debt has created conflicting objectives. Challenges yet to be mastered are the need to avoid counterproductive measures of adjustment and...

The recent global financial crisis has challenged conventional wisdom, and our conception of globalisation has been called into question. This challenging and timely book revisits the relationship between globalisation, the crisis and the state from an interdisciplinary perspective, with law,...

Analytical dialectics, rationality, and trust -- Law as credibility-basic traits -- The Eurozone : accession, exit, and expulsion-revisited -- The ECB and European monetary policy -- The European framework of financial regulation and supervision : towards a banking union -- The stability and...