Front Cover -- A Great Leap Forward -- A Great Leap Forward: Heterodox Economic Policy for the 21st Century -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction -- A - The trouble with financialization -- I. What causes financial crises? -- II. The rise of financialization, neocons, and the ownership society -- III. The dark recesses of the financial system: why no one saw "it" coming -- IV. The global financial crisis explained -- V. The role of lender fraud -- VI. The four developments that precipitated the crisis -- a Managed money -- b Investment banks -- c Deregulation and desupervision -- The rise of fraud as normal business procedure -- VII. Fraud as a business model -- VIII. The Wall Street bailout -- IX. Why we are screwed: it will happen again -- X. Did we learn anything from the crisis? -- XI. The end of money manager capitalism? -- References -- Further reading -- B - The road to social progress -- I. Aging, social security, and pensions -- a Demographics and infinite horizon calculations of burdens -- b How to pay for social security: truth and fictions -- c Social security, subway tokens, and pizza coupons -- d Private pensions: an introduction -- Reforming pension fund and private savings strategies -- II. Health insurance versus Healthcare -- a Healthcare diversions: the elephant in the room -- b Health insurance diversions: we need less health insurance, not more -- c Health insurance diversions: the financialization of health (and everything else) -- d Selling death -- The compulsive push for single payer -- III. Conclusion -- References -- C - Tackling poverty and inequality. The road to full employment and price stability -- I. Poverty and the trickle-down economy -- a One percenters -- b Rising tide -- II. Addressing inequality -- a Redistribution or preredistribution? Uncle Sam should not play Robin Hood.
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