Financial Crisis – Page 2

New Book: The Great Financial Meltdown – Systemic, Conjunctural or Policy Created?

June 17, 2016

Category: crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Economic Policy, Edward Elgar, Financial Crisis, Great recession, Heterodox Economics, Marxian Economics, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Post-Keynesian, Radical Economics, Turan Subasat

From Edward Elgar. Edited by Turan Subasat The Great Financial Meltdown reviews, advocates and critiques the systemi

New Book: Latin America after the Financial Crisis – Economic Ramifications from Heterodox Perspectives

June 13, 2016

Category: crisis, Critical Social Science, Financial Crisis, Great recession, Heterodox Economics, International Political Economy, Latin America, Macroeconomics, Marxian Economics, Paul Cooney, Periphery, Political economy, Radical Economics, world economy

From Palgrave: Juan E. Santarcángelo (Editor), Orlando Justo (Editor), Paul Cooney (Editor) The global crisis is con

On neocolonialism and the crisis in Puerto Rico

June 6, 2016

Category: austerity, Balance of Payments Constraint, crisis, Financial Crisis, Imperialism, M Vernengo, Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism, Puerto Rico

Argeo T. Quiñones-Pérez and Ian J. Seda-Irizarry discuss in this piece the crisis in Puerto Rico. Austerity is being im

New Book by Richard D. Wolff: Capitalism's Crisis Deepens – Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown

May 24, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, crisis, David Fields, Democracy, Europe, Financial Crisis, Great recession, Inequality, Marxian Economics, Marxism, Political economy, Richard D. Wolff, Socialism, United States, world economy

From Haymarket Books: While most mainstream commentators view the crisis that provoked the Great Recession as having

Ilene Grabel on Capital Controls

April 22, 2016

Category: Capital Controls, crisis, David Fields, Debt, Development, Economic Policy, Financial Crisis, Financial Liberalization, Geography, Globalization, Ilene Grabel, IMF, Institutions, International Political Economy, Neoliberalism, PERI, world economy

New paper published by PERI. From the abstract: The startling resuscitation of capital controls during the global cri

SCEPA Presents Yanis Varoufakis, Live Online April 25th

April 20, 2016

Category: austerity, Capitalism, Class Conflict, crisis, Critical Social Science, Currency, David Fields, Debt, Distribution, Economic Policy, EMU, Euro, Euro Crisis, Europe, Finance, Financial Crisis, Great recession, Greek Crisis, Growth, Heterodox Economics, Inequality, Mark Setterfield, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Power, Praxis, Radical Economics, Research, SCEPA, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Syriza, Troika, Tsipras, unemployment, Well-being, world economy, Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis will deliver the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) annual Robert Heilbroner Mem

Gerald Epstein on Paul Krugman Crossing the Line

April 15, 2016

Category: David Fields, Dodd-Frank, Economic Policy, Fed, Financial Crisis, Gerald Friedman, Paul Krugman, Too Big To Fail, Wall Street

By Gerald Epstein Originally posted at Triple Crisis. In his recent New York Times opinion column, “Sanders Over the

Is Economics Responding to Critique?

March 25, 2016

Category: Academia, Academic Freedom, crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Financial Crisis, Heterodox Economics, Higher Ed Crisis, Jamie Morgan, mainstream, Methodology, Neoclassical Economics, Review of Political Economy, UK

The October 2015 issue of the Review of Political Economy contains an article by Jamie Morgan, of Leeds Beckett Univers

Age of Austerity: Capital, the Financial Crisis and the State in Canada

March 24, 2016

Category: austerity, Canada, Capitalism, Class Conflict, crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Democracy, Financial Crisis, financialization, Geoffrey McCormack, Globalization, Heterodox Economics, Marxian Economics, Marxism, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Radical Economics, Robin Chang, Social Justice, Socialism, Socialist Project, State Theory, Thom Workman

Geoffrey McCormack and Thom Workman interviewed by Robin Chang: The financial and economic crisis of 2008 has left a co

Yanis Varoufakis on A United, Democratised Europe Is The Only Weapon Against A Dark Continent

March 6, 2016

Category: Capitalism, David Fields, Democracy, Euro, Euro Crisis, Europe, Financial Crisis, Greek Crisis, Living Standards, Neoliberalism, Power, Praxis, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Troika, unemployment, Well-being, Yanis Varoufakis

Following the Berlin Launch of DiEM25, eleven representatives of the GREENS (including two Members of the European Pa

New Book: The Demise of Finance-dominated Capitalism, Explaining the Financial and Economic Crises

February 22, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, crisis, David Fields, Eckhard Hein, Edward Elgar, Finance, Financial Crisis, financialization, Great recession, Heterodox Economics, Money, Political economy, Robber Barons, Social Justice, world economy

From Edward Elgar, Edited by Eckhard Hein, Daniel Detzer and Nina Dodig, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany Th

New book by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams: Inventing the Future – Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

February 16, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, Communism, David Fields, Financial Crisis, Labour, Living Standards, Marxism, Political economy, Social Justice, Socialism, Technology, Well-being, Work

From Verso: Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious wo

Antonis Davanellos on The Greek Left after Syriza

February 11, 2016

Category: Class Conflict, David Fields, EMU, Euro, Euro Crisis, Financial Crisis, Greek Crisis, International Socialist Review, Neoliberalism, Social Movements, Syriza, Troika, Tsipras

Interview by International Socialist Review with Antonis Davanellos,  leading member of Greece’s Popular Unity and

New Book By Michael Hudson: Killing the Host – How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy

February 7, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, David Fields, Finance, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Michael Hudson, world economy

From Nation Books: KILLING THE HOST exposes how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have gained cont

Graph/Table of the Week: Bernanke's Fed and Yellen's choices

January 29, 2015

Category: Bernanke, Fed, Financial Crisis, Yellen

So the whole discussion now is when, not whether, will Yellen increase the interest rate. Pressure is for her to do it soo

Graph/Table of the Week: Bernanke's Fed and Yellen's choices

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