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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Taking the Long View
• Chapter 3: Fortune 500 and Wall Street Leviathans
• Chapter 4: Corporate Hegemony and the Mutual Support Network
• Chapter 5: Contemporary Neoliberalism
• Chapter 6: Everyday Neoliberalism
• Chapter 7: The Crises of the Eighties and the Ascent of the Greenspan Era
• Chapter 8: The Washington Consensus and the Epic Crises of the Nineties
• Chapter 9: The 2008 Meltdown
• Chapter 10: Microfinance and Loan Sharking
• Chapter 11: Will Peer-to-Peer and Equity Crowdfunding Be Different?
• Chapter 12: The Neoliberal Oxymoron of Green Capitalism
• Chapter 13: Conclusion.