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"The book provides new insights that are relevant for theory and practice, not only for transnational financial regulation, but for global governance more generally"--

The global economic crisis threatens recent gains in health and poverty reduction in developing countries. What is the effect of the crisis on HIV programs, especially in high HIV prevalence countries? What are the possible consequences? What can be done to avoid negative impacts? Much is at risk: increased mortality and morbidity, unplanned interruptions or curtailed access to treatment, with increased risk of HIV transmission, higher future financial costs, increased burden on health systems and reversal of economic and social development gains

"The financial crisis of 2007-08 shook the idea that advanced information and communications technologies (ICTs) as solely a source of economic rejuvenation and uplift, instead introducing the world to the once-unthinkable idea of a technological revolution wrapped inside an economic collapse. In Digital Depression, Dan Schiller delves into the ways networked systems and ICTs have transformed global capitalism during the so-called Great Recession. He focuses on capitalism's crisis tendencies to confront the contradictory matrix of a technological revolution and economic stagnation making up the current political economy and demonstrates digital technology's central role in the global political economy. As he shows, the forces at the core of capitalism--exploitation, commodification, and inequality--are ongoing and accelerating within the networked political economy"--

"With the advent of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the economics profession itself entered into a crisis of legitimacy from which it has yet to emerge. Despite the obviousness of their failures, however, economists continue to rely on the same methods and to proceed from the same underlying assumptions. André Orléan challenges the neoclassical paradigm in this book, with a new way of thinking about perhaps its most fundamental concept, economic value. Orléan argues that value is not bound up with labor, or utility, or any other property that preexists market exchange. Economic value, he contends, is a social force whose vast sphere of influence, amounting to a kind of empire, extends to every aspect of economic life. Markets are based on the identification of value with money, and exchange value can only be regarded as a social institution. Financial markets, for example, instead of defining an extrinsic, objective value for securities, act as a mechanism for arriving at a reference price that will be accepted by all investors. What economists must therefore study, Orléan urges, is the hold that value has over individuals and how it shapes their perceptions and behavior."--Jacket.

Contents: Part I: What were the causes of the Great Recession? -- Preface to part I / Tim Congdon -- 1. What were the causes of the Great Recession?: the mainstream approach vs. the monetary interpretation / Tim Congdon -- 2. The debate over 'quantitative easing' in the UK's Great Recession and afterwards / Tim Congdon -- 3. UK broad money growth and nominal spending during the Great Recession: an analysis of the money creation process and the role of money demand / Ryland Thomas -- 4. Have central banks forgotten about money?: the case of the European Central Bank, 1999 - 2014 / Juan E. Castañeda and Tim Congdon -- Part II: The financial system in the Great Recession: culprit or victim? -- Preface to part II / Tim Congdon -- 5. The impact of the New Regulatory Wisdom on banking, credit and money: good or bad? / Sir Adam Ridley -- 6. Why has monetary policy not worked as expected?: some interactions between financial regulation, credit and money / Charles Goodhart -- 7. The Basle rules and the banking system: an american perspective / Steve Hanke -- Part III: How should the Great Recession be viewed in monetary thought and history? -- Preface to part III / Tim Congdon -- 8. Monetary policy, asset prices and financial institutions? / Philip Booth -- 9. How would Keynes have analysed the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009? / Robert Skidelsky -- 10. Why Friedman and Schwartz's interpretation of the Great Depression still matters: reassessing the thesis of their 1963 Monetary History / David Laidler -- Index.

A controversial look at the impending Chinese economic collapse—the history behind it, its contemporary causes, and its dire implications for the global economyAll the experts agree: the 21st century belongs to China. Given America's looming insolvency and the possibility of the collapse of the U.S. dollar, who can doubt that China is poised to take over the role of economic superpower? Written by political economist and leading financial journalist James Gorrie, this book offers a highly controversial, contrarian view of contemporary China. Drawing upon a wealth of historical and up-to-the-minute data, Gorrie makes a strong case that China, itself, is on the verge of an economic crisis of epic proportions. He explains how, caught in a recurrent boom/bust cycle that has played itself out several times over the past sixty years, China is again approaching total economic and social collapse. But with one important difference this time: they may very well take the entire global economy down with them.Explores the Chinese communist party's unfortunate history of making costly and very bloody mistakes on an enormous scaleOne-by-one Gorrie analyzes those critical mistakes and explains how they may lead to economic collapse in China and global depressionDescribes Chinese 'cannibal capitalism,' and where its massive abuse of the country's environment, people, and arable lands is leading that country and the world economyChronicles China's history of recurring economic crisis and explains why all the evidence suggests that history is about to repeat itself

Introduction -- "Too Clubby to Fail": Wall Street Banks Win, Thrifts and Community Banks Lose -- Increased Risk Taking Due to Deregulation -- Deregulation, Politics, and Criminal Prosecutions -- The Four Major Waves of Change in the 1990s That -- Laid the Groundwork for the 2008 Financial Crisis -- Washington Mutual in the Age of Consolidation of the Financial Industry -- Record Profits and the Stunning Growth of Shadow Banking -- Record Banking Profits and Growth, but There Is a Canary in the Mine -- The Financial Crisis Hits -- The Aftermath of the Financial Crisis -- Part One: Investigations and Lawsuits: 2010 -- Part Two: Investigations and Lawsuits: 2011-2014 -- The Fast Buildup of the Next Shadow Banking System -- The Makings of the Next Financial Crisis -- Recommendations to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis -- Afterword: COVID-19 Strikes.

Among the founding nations of the European Union, no nation has experienced a more devastating affect from the 2008 economic crisis than Italy. Although its recovery has recently begun, Italy has fallen even further behind EU economic leaders and the EU average. Looking at how and why this happened, Facing the Crisis brings together ethnographic material from anthropological research projects carried out in various Italian industrial locations. With its wide breadth of locations and industries, the volume looks at all corners of the diverse Italian manufacturing system