The Theory of Crisis and the Great Recession in Spain

This book has a dual purpose. Firstly, it analyses the concept of economic crises within economic theory, showing the various theoretical foundations and controversies amongst different schools of economic thought. Secondly, it presents an empirical analysis of the Great Recession in Spain, addressi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mateo Tomé, Juan Pablo (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, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • 1.Introduction: The Political Economy of the Spanish Crisis
  • Part I: Foundations of the Theory of Crisis in the Economic Thought
  • 2.The Materialist Conception of the Crisis
  • 3.Advancing in the Theory of Crisis: Social, Temporal and Geographical Dynamics
  • 4.Conventional Economics and the Theories of the Possibility of Crisis
  • Part II: A Crisis of Capital Valorization: Profitability, Asset-Inflation and the Composition of Capital
  • 5.The Fall in Profitability Underlying the Great Recession
  • 6.Construction and the Housing Boom. Analyzing the Price-Effect From The Law of Value
  • 7.Why Does Profitability Fall? Paradoxes of Capital Composition and Labour Productivity
  • Part III: Controversies Around the Crisis: Why it Happened, What Should Be Done
  • 8.This Time It Was Also The Same: Accumulation of Imbalances and Human Failures
  • 9.Labor Market, Wages and Crisis
  • 10. Financialization and Crisis: From Low Interest Rates to a Credit Boom and Over-Indebtedness
  • 11.The Way Out Of Crises. From Diagnosis to a Programme of Economic Policy
  • 12.Conclusions.