What Is the Truth About the Great Recession and Increasing Inequality?

Dialogues on Disputed Issues and Conflicting Theories

Mario Morroni (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

X, 204 Seiten

2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-98620-3 (ISBN)

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Have you ever puzzled over the causes of the 2007-8 financial crisis and wondered how it will affect all our futures? If so, this book is for you. Using imagined dialogue between three economists with contrasting theoretical perspectives and a student who knows little about economics, different interpretations are compared in straightforward, jargon-free language. The book explores both the consequences of neoliberal economic policies based on the belief in efficient, self-regulating markets and the implications of alternative economic visions formulated in response to the Great Recession. In all, nine dialogues are presented, each of which focuses on a key theme: increasing inequality, the failure of economists to predict the crash, the reasons for fiscal austerity, the rolling back of the welfare state, the roles of the state and the market, the repercussions of the German trade surplus and the Eurozone crisis, policies to confront the crisis, environmental degradation, and theneed for an industrial policy appropriate to the present day. The book will be ideal for both general readers and those embarking on the study of economics.

Mario Morroni is Professor of Economics at the University of Pisa and a Life Member of Clare Hall, College for Advanced Study, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). He has previously authored a book on technical change and production processes (Cambridge University Press, 1992) that received the Myrdal Prize and also a book on the theory of the firm (Cambridge University Press, 2006). He is the author of a number of further works in the areas of microeconomics, macroeconomics, labor economics, and industrial economics.

Prologue.- Increasing inequality.- The failure to predict the Great Recession.- Why fiscal austerity?.- Rolling back the welfare state.- The state and the market.- The gigantic German trade surplus and the euro.- Crisis policy.- Environmental degradation.- Industrial policies.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2018
Zusatzinfo	X, 204 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	338 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
Schlagworte	Crisis policy • Environmental Degradation • euro crisis • eurozone crisis • Financial crash of 2007-2008 • Financial crash of 2007–2008 • Financial Crises • Fiscal Austerity • German trade surplus • Great Recession • Inequality • Keynesian Economics • Keynesianism • Keynesian theories • Neo-Keynesian paradigm • Neoliberal economic policies • neoliberal ideologies • Neoliberalism • state and market • Welfare State
ISBN-10	3-319-98620-1 / 3319986201
ISBN-13	978-3-319-98620-3 / 9783319986203
Zustand	Neuware