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Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Rock crumbles -- Chapter 2: The Rock rescue -- Chapter 3: Banks on the brink -- Chapter 4: The Financial storm breaks -- Chapter 5: Britain on the brink -- Chapter 6: Britain stands alone -- Chapter 7: Battle for banking survival -- Chapter 8: Banks struggle to rebuild -- Timeline -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Intro -- Contents -- 1: A Scandal in Bohemia -- Part I: Busted -- 2: Debt and Destruction -- 3: Cutting Back -- 4: Levered Losses: The Theory -- 5: Explaining Unemployment -- Part II: Boil and Bubble -- 6: The Credit Expansion -- 7: Conduit to Disaster -- 8: Debt and Bubbles -- Part III: Stopping the Cycle -- 9: Save the Banks, Save the Economy? -- 10: Forgiveness -- 11: Monetary and Fiscal Policy -- 12: Sharing -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hegemony, State-Corporate Globalization, and Antisystemic Movements: Contending Theoretical and Historical Approaches -- Part I: Contemporary Globalization -- 1 The United States in Decline? -- 2 The Phoenix Cycle: Global Leadership Transition in a Long-Wave Perspective -- 3 From State Hegemonies to Transnational Hegemony: A Global Capitalism Approach -- 4 Quantifying Hegemony in the World Economy -- 5 Servants of the World System: An Analysis of Servitude in the United States and the New International Division of Reproductive Labor -- 6 Gobalization: The New Mechanism of Dependency -- 7 The Sweatshop Dynamic: U.S. Shipper Hegemony in the Global Logistics Sector of Los Angeles -- Part II: Counterhegemonic Social Movements -- 8 Hegemonic Decline and World Revolution: When the World Is Up for Grabs -- 9 The Politics of Global Islam: U.S. Hegemony, Globalization, and Islamist Social Movements -- 10 Hegemony Lost: Understanding Islamic Fundamentalism -- About the Contributors -- Series List.

The global credit crisis of 2008-2009 was the most serious shock to the world economy in fully 80 years. It was for the world as a whole what the Asian crisis of 1997-1998 was for emerging markets: a profoundly alarming wake-up call. By laying bare the fragility of global markets, it raised troubling questions about the operation of our deeply integrated world economy. It cast doubt on the efficacy of the dominant mode of light-touch financial regulation and more generally on the efficacy of the prevailing commitment to economic and financial liberalization. It challenged the managerial capacity of inherited institutions of global governance. And it augured a changing of the guard, pointing to the possibility that the economies that had been the leaders in the "global growth stakes" in the past might no longer be the leaders in the future. What the crisis means for reform, however, is still unclear. This book brings together leading scholars and policy analysts to describe and weigh the options. Successive chapters assess options for the global financial system, the global trading system, the international monetary system, and the Group of 20 and global governance. A final set of chapters contemplates the policy challenges for emerging markets and the advanced economies in the wake of the financial crisis

This book investigates the changing nature of economic policies following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009. Well-respected, international scholars come together to discuss the level of economic growth following the crisis, concerns over inequality in industrialised countries, and labour market policies. Topics covered range from monetary and fiscal policies since the GFC to the effect of post-GFC policies on the labour market and the environment. This is the thirteenth volume in the series International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE). This series consists of an annual volume with a single theme. The objective of the IPPE is the publication of papers dealing with important topics within the broad framework of Political Economy. .--

Faced with the prospect of a new Great Depression in 2008 when the collapse of Lehman Brothers set off a global panic, the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and other agencies took extraordinary measures to contain the damage and steady the financial system and the economy. Edited by three of the policymakers who led the government's response to the crisis, with chapters written by the teams tasked with finding policy solutions, this book provides a comprehensive accounting of the internal debates and controversies surrounding the measures that were taken to stabilize the economy

Elisabeth Wynhausen was at her desk writing a story about people being sacked when she was sacked herself. The Short Goodbye is the untold story of a nation forever changed by the global financial crisis and the people whose lives have been glossed over in the grand narratives of politicians and commentators. With verve and wit, she dissects the myth that Australia dodged a financial bullet by documenting the lives of those discarded on an economic minefield, from bankers to factory workers, and warns that without reform Australia could suffer a more terrible social and economic calamity from

1. Introduction / Jason Begley [and others] -- 2. Creating local economic resilience : co-operation, innovation and firms' absorptive capacity / Jonathan Michie and Christine Oughton -- 3. Global economic crises and local fortunes : the case of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire / Rupert Waters and Helen Smith -- 4. Regional capabilities and industrial resiliency : specialization and diversification dynamics in Lowell, Massachusetts / Michael H. Best -- 5. From recession to re-industrialization : a case study of employment changes in North Carolina / Ian Taplin and Minh-Trang Thi Nguyen -- 6. Institutional change, industrial logics and internationalization : growth of the auto and it sectors in India / Anthony D'Costa -- 7. A system abandoned : twenty years of management, corporate governance and labour market reforms in Japan / Holger Bungsche -- 8. China and the global recession / Jason Begley and Tom Donnelly -- 9. North American and European responses to crisis in the motor vehicle industry / James M. Rubenstein -- 10. Addressing 'strategic failure' : widening the public interest in the UK financial and energy sectors / J. Robert Branston [and others].

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Stability is destabilizing -- 3 The madness of crowds -- 4 Profit takers and panic -- 5 Harnessing charisma -- Appendix 1 Philosophical approach -- Appendix 2 SEC enforcement actions arising from the financial crisis -- Glossary -- Index.

This book argues that while deregulation definitely aided it, it cannot be the basis for the crisis. Instead of concentrating on the financial side alone, this work attempts to bring the real economy into focus by using a heterodox framework which challenges the current dominant thinking in the discipline. It examines, theoretically and empirically, whether increased income and wealth inequalities and business concentration contributed to the instability in the US economy.

"The collapse of the United States sub-prime mortgage market and 'Credit Crunch' have been blamed on the risky behaviour of financial institutions by many commentators, regulatory agencies and politicians. This edited volume explores how financial crime played a significant role in the global economic crises. The volume features contributions from internationally renowned academic and practitioner experts in the field who pinpoint some of the most important facets of financial crime which have emerged over recent years. Key subjects include: the possibility of criminalising reckless risk-taking on the financial markets; the duty of banks to prevent money-laundering and corruption; the growth of the Shadow Banking System; and the manipulation of LIBOR by banks. The book illustrates the global nature of financial crime, and highlights the complex relationships between regulatory bodies, law enforcement agencies and private actors in the attempt to limit the harmful effect of white collar crime on the stability of the financial sector. This book will be of great use and interest to scholars, practitioners and students within the field of financial crime, banking and finance law, and international political economy"--