1. From the Great Depression to the Great Recession -- 2. Causes of the US subprime mortgage crisis -- 3. The crisis spreads to Europe -- 4. Why the European sovereign debt crisis has lasted so long -- 5. US fiscal and monetary policy to cope with the Great Recession -- 6. The role of Germany in...

1. The problems at hand -- 2. The money question -- 3. On firm ground -- 4. Economists and the search for industrial order -- 5. Obscured irrelevance : economists in the boom years -- 6. Stuck in the middle : economists, agricultural reform, and crisis.

pt. 1. Re-embedding the financial crisis in its cultural milieu -- pt. 2. Shifting paradigms, shifting scopes : beyond the national crisis -- pt. 3. Disruptive and creative agency : the dynamics of cultural resilience and renewal.

There is broad consensus across the political spectrum in the US that monopolistic corporations - particularly Big Tech companies -- have grown too powerful, and that we need to revive antitrust to take on the 'curse of bigness.' But both the diagnosis and the cure are rooted in an outdated...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What Happened to Horatio Alger? -- 3 Who Believes in the American Dream? -- 4 The High Costs of Being Poor in the Land of the Dream -- 5 Well-Being, Aspirations, and Outcomes -- 6 Can We Save the Dream? --...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Political Economy of Currency Choice -- CHAPTER 1. A Theory of Currency Policy Preferences -- CHAPTER 2. The United States: From Greenbacks to Gold, 1862-79 -- CHAPTER 3. The United States: Silver Threats among the Gold,...

Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these concerns would motivate people to become more politically engaged on the issues, this often...

An in-depth political, legal, and philosophical study into the implications of wealth inequality in modern societies.Wealth, and specifically its distribution, has been a topic of great debate in recent years. Calls for justice against corporations implicated in the 2008 financial crash;...