Financing the Apocalypse Drivers for Economic and Political Instability /

• Main Author: Magnuson, Joel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Insights into Apocalypse Economics,
• Subjects: Macroeconomics.; Economic policy.; Financial crises.; Evolutionary economics.; Economic history.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Economic Policy.; Financial Crises.; Institutional/Evolutionary Economics.; Economic History.

As we tour the 400 year history of capitalism through its various phases of development, financial system instability is always there lurking in the shadows. The historical record attests that the processes of aggregating capital for real investment are inescapably vulnerable to risk, manic speculat...