Politics in the New Hard Times : : The Great Recession in Comparative Perspective / / ed. by Miles Kahler, David A. Lake.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Berger, Suzanne,; Broz, J. Lawrence,; Cowhey, Peter,; Gourevitch, Peter A.,; Haggard, Stephan,; Hall, Peter A.,; Kahler, Miles,; Katzenstein, Peter J.,; Kume, Ikuo,; Lake, David A.,; Naoi, Megumi,; Nelson, Stephen C.,; Pinto, Pablo M.,; Shinn, James,
• HerausgeberIn: Kahler, Miles,; Lake, David A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 3 halftones, 10 tables, 20 charts, 1 line drawing

The Great Recession and its aftershocks, including the Eurozone banking and debt crisis, add up to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although economic explanations for the Great Recession have proliferated, the political causes and consequences of the crisis h...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction. ANATOMY OF CRISIS
• Part I. CRISES AND POLITICS
• 1. ECONOMIC CRISIS AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
• 2. POLITICS IN HARD TIMES REVISITED
• 3. PARTISAN FINANCIAL CYCLES
• 4. THE POLITICS OF HARD TIMES
• Part II. INTERESTS, CO ALI TIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES
• 5. THE PO LITI CAL ORIGINS OF OUR ECONOMIC DISCONTENTS
• 6. PUZZLES FROM THE FIRST GLOBALIZATION
• 7. PORTFOLIO POLITICS IN THE NEW HARD TIMES
• 8. COALITION OF LOSERS
• 9. CRAFTING TRADE STRATEGY IN THE GREAT RECESSION
• 10. WORLDS IN COLLISION
• Afterword. YET MORE HARD TIMES?
• References
• About the Contributors
• Index