What Is the Truth About the Great Recession and Increasing Inequality? Dialogues on Disputed Issues and Conflicting Theories /

• Main Author: Morroni, Mario (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Economics.; Economic policy.; Schools of economics.; Financial crises.; Economic history.; Macroeconomics.; Popular Science in Economics.; Economic Policy.; Heterodox Economics.; Financial Crises.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.

Have you ever puzzled over the causes of the 2007-8 financial crisis and wondered how it will affect all our futures? If so, this book is for you. Using imagined dialogue between three economists with contrasting theoretical perspectives and a student who knows little about economics, different inte...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue
• Increasing inequality
• The failure to predict the Great Recession
• Why fiscal austerity?
• Rolling back the welfare state
• The state and the market
• The gigantic German trade surplus and the euro
• Crisis policy
• Environmental degradation
• Industrial policies.