Radical Origins to Economic Crises Germán Bernácer, A Visionary Precursor /

• Main Author: Savall, Henri (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.
• Subjects: Economic history.; Macroeconomics.; Financial crises.; Economic growth.; Schools of economics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Financial Crises.; Economic Growth.; Heterodox Economics.

This book presents the complete and pioneering works of the great Spanish economist, Germán Bernácer (1883-1965), to an English audience for the first time. Bernácer, the first director of the Research Service of the Bank of Spain (1930-55), inspired Keynes' theory but was also a major criti...

Table of Contents:

• PART I: A Pre-Keynes Founder of Modern Economics: Germán Bernácer
• 1. Why publish this work on Germán Bernácer, the great pioneering Spanish economist, now?
• 2. Biography and Testimonies
• PART II: Crisis and Unemployment Theory
• 3. Bernácer's critical analysis of actual capitalism: "a free economy without crisis and without unemployment"
• 4. Monetary factors of crisis: hoarding versuss. investment, inflation and deflation
• 5. The interest rate as a factor of instability and crises
• 6. Improving capitalism through freedom, ethics and efficiency
• 7. Conclusion: advocacy for Bernácer 's rehabilitation. .