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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" -- "Half Title" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Glossary" -- "Dedication" -- "Introduction" -- "Idealism" -- "Realism" -- "Pluralism" -- "Stakes" -- "Chapter One Power and restraint in American history" -- "The conservative anxiety" -- "Cycles of ambition" -- "Moments of restraint" -- "Chapter Two Barack Obama and the limits of superpower" -- "Afghanistan" -- "America: offshore balancer?" -- "Humanitarian war" -- "Counter-proliferation" -- "Chapter Three Politics, polarisation and American exceptionalism" -- "Tea and liberty" -- "Contested exceptionalism" -- "Fiscal paralysis" -- "Money and morals" -- "Chapter Four The causes and consequences of austerity" -- "The road to ruin" -- "Austerity politics" -- "Balance and imbalance" -- "Power shift?" -- "Chapter Five Power, influence and leadership" -- "A world without followers" -- "When coordination breaks down" -- "Frustration and hubris" -- "Conclusion Realist Dilemmas" -- "The plurality of power" -- "The primacy of politics" -- "Appendix American power in decline?

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.

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. .--

1. Introduction / Professor Nicholas Ryder, Dr. Umut Turksen and Dr. Sabine Hassler -- 2. Risk, recklessness and policing the financial markets / Jonathan Fisher QC -- 3. Credible deterrence and consumer protection through the imposition of financial penalties : lessons for the Financial Conduct Authority / Peter Cartwright -- 4. LIBOR manipulation : the limits and potential of corporate criminal liability / Robert Stokes -- 5. Implications of anti-money laundering law for accountancy in the European Union : a comparative study / Umut Turksen -- 6. Solicitors and complying with the anti-money laundering framework : reporting suspicions, applying for consent and tipping-off / Andrew Campbell and Elise Campbell -- 7. The good, the bad and the fraud : securitisation and financial crime in light of the global financial crisis / Anastasia Nesvetailova and Andrei Sandu -- 8. Corruption, money laundering, secrecy and societal responsibility of banks / Indira Carr and Rob Jago -- 9. Virtual currency in a virtual world : virtually unstoppable? / Alan S. Reid -- 10. Are the current laws and potential enforcement measures effective in achieving the accountability of bank directors for their actions, or the actions of the banks they manage? A comparison of UK and US approaches / Henry Hillman.

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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].

The 2008-10 financial crisis and the global recession it created is a complex phenomenon that warrants detailed examination. The various essays in this book utilise several alternative paradigms to provide a plausible explanation and a credible cure. Great detail is given to this important analysis from different theoretical perspectives, presenting a clearer understanding of what went wrong and expounding misinterpretations of current theories and practices. Fourteen insightful chapters by eminent scholars investigate the background of the crisis and draw lessons for economic theory and polic

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.