Who's Afraid of John Maynard Keynes? Challenging Economic Governance in an Age of Growing Inequality /

• Main Author: Davidson, Paul (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Macroeconomics.; Economics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; International Political Economy.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.

This book presents a clear and concise solution to understanding and alleviating today’s global economic challenges in the context of Keynes’ school of thought. Davidson explains the importance of the market economy, and unveils how and why global financial crises occur when the liquidity of financi...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 - Who saw the coming of the global financial crisis 2007-8?
• .Chapter 2 - Alternative explanations of how the capitalist economy in which we live operates?
• .Chapter 3 - Understanding the role of money and money contracts in a market economy
• .Chapter 4. Unemployment: Why can't people who want to work find jobs?
• .Chapter 5  - Creating a prosperous full employment economy
• .Chapter 6. Can we prevent inflation and still achieve full employment
• .Chapter 7. The role of financial markets and liquidity
• .Chapter 8. Globalization and international trade effects on employment and prosperity
• .Chapter 9. Are free trade agreements desirable
• .Chapter 10. President Trump's anti-free trade agreements policy
• .Chapter 11. What economic policies can a democracy adopt to assure we live in a prosperous, civilised, capitalist system.  .