After the great recession : the struggle for economic recovery and growth / / edited by Barry Z. Cynamon, Steven M. Fazzari, Mark Setterfield ; foreword by Robert Kuttner.
"The severity of the Great Recession and the subsequent stagnation caught many economists by surprise. But a group of Keynesian scholars warned for some years that strong forces were leading the US toward a deep, persistent downturn. This book collects essays about these events from prominent m...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 340 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Part I. Introduction and Overview: 1. Understanding the great recession Barry Z. Cynamon, Steven M. Fazzari and Mark Setterfield; 2. America's exhausted paradigm: macroeconomic causes of the financial crisis and great recession Thomas I. Palley; Part II. Emergence of Financial Instability: 3. Minsky's money manager capitalism: assessment and reform L. Randall Wray; 4. Trying to serve two masters: the dilemma of financial regulation Jan Kregel; 5. How bonus-driven 'rainmaker' financial firms enrich top employees, destroy shareholder value, and create systemic financial instability James Crotty; Part III. Household Spending and Debt: Source of Past Growth-Seeds of Recent Collapse: 6. The end of the consumer age Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari; 7. Wages, demand and US macroeconomic travails: diagnosis and prognosis Mark Setterfield; Part IV. Global Dimensions of US Crisis: 8. Global imbalances and US trade in the great recession and its aftermath Robert Blecker; Part V. Economic Policy after the Great Recession: 9. Confronting the Kindleberger moment: credit, fiscal, and regulatory policy to avoid economic disaster Gerald Epstein; 10. Fiscal policy: the recent record and lessons for the future Dean Baker; 11. No need to panic about US government deficits Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari; 12. Fiscal policy for the great recession and beyond Pavlina Tcherneva; Part VI. The Way Forward: 13. Demand, finance, and uncertainty beyond the great recession Barry Z. Cynamon, Steven M. Fazzari and Mark Setterfield.