Part 1: Theory 1. Methodological Framing 2. The Role of Law in Markets Part 2: Crises 3. History and Deregulation 4. The Crisis of 2008 Part 3: The Future 5. Responses to the Credit Crunch 6. The Market-State Balance Revisted.
"Competition law underpins the market economy by prohibiting anti-competitive agreements and practices, and the abuse of dominant positions in the market. Until the financial crisis it was widely assumed that the financial services industry was highly competitive. This book expl…
In this topical book, Boudewijn de Bruin examines the ethical 'blind spots' that lay at the heart of the global financial crisis. He argues that the most important moral problem in finance is not the 'greed is good' culture, but rather the epistemic shortcomings of bankers, clie…
"Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy during the last three decades, although there is no agreement on what exactly it is. Profiting Without Producing puts forth a distinctive view defining financialization in terms …
La doctrina del shock es la historia no oficial del libre mercado. Desde Chile hasta Rusia, desde Sudáfrica hasta Canadá la implantación del libre mercado responde a un programa de ingeniería social y económica que Naomi Klein identifica como «capitalismo del desastre». Tras una…
An account of the federally ignored economic slump of 1920-1921 challenges the Keynesian stimulus responses to the 2007-2009 recession, arguing that federal interventions after the 1929 crash extended the Great Depression.
Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Bretton Woods 3. Transitions 4. The debt crisis 5. Global finance redux 6. Currency crises 7. The widening gyre 8. Fiscal follies 9. Lessons learned 10. The great recession 11. The world turned upside down.
