The Great Financial Meltdown: Systemic, Conjunctural or Policy Created? (New Directions in Modern Economics series)

The Great Financial Meltdown reviews, advocates and critiques the systemic, conjunctural and policy-based explanations for the 2008 crisis. The book expertly examines the explanations for the global crisis to assess their analytical and empirical validity. Comprehensive yet accessible chapters, written by a collection of prominent authors, cover a wide range of political economy approaches to the crisis, including Marxian, Post Keynesian and other heterodox schools. This interrogation of economic policy in light of the financial crisis is essential reading for real-word economists. To those seeking to understand the current economic stagnation and failings of the system, it offers an enlightening exposition of contemporary political economy. Contributors include: E. Bakir, R. Bellofiore, A. Campbell, R. Desai, B. Fine, D. Fouskas, A. Freeman, D. Harvey, A. Kaltenbrunner, E. Karacimen, D. Kotz, S. Mavroudeas, S. Mohun, O. Orhangazi, M. Roberts, T. Subasat, J. Toporowski, J. Weeks

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784716480
• ISBN13: 9781784716486
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"