Financial Crisis, Labour Markets and Institutions

ISBN-13: 9780415538602 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 222 str.

Sebastiano Fadda; Pasquale Tridico

Opis

This text seeks to explain the global financial crisis and its wider economic, political, and social repercussions, arguing that the 2007-9 meltdown was in fact a systemic crisis of the capitalist system.

Spis treści

Introduction Sebastiano Fadda and Pasquale Tridico Part I: Capitalism in Crisis: Nature and Origins 1. Capitalism in Deep Trouble Richard Wolff 2. The North Atlantic Financial Crisis and Varieties of Capitalism: A Minsky moment and/or a Marx moment? And perhaps Max Weber too? Bob Jessop 3. Beyond the Political Economy of Hyman Minsky: What financial innovation means today Anastasia Nesvetailova 4. The Problematic Nature of the Economic and Monetary Union Malcolm Sawyer 5. Financialization, Income Distribution and the Crisis Engelbert Stockhammer Part II: Impact and Consequences of the Crisis 6. Labour Market Institutions and the Crisis: Where we come from and where we are going Sebastiano Fadda 7. Financial Crisis, Labour Markets and Varieties Of Capitalism: A comparison between the European social model versus the US model Pasquale Tridico 8. Labour Market Rigidities Can Be Useful: A Schumpeterian view Alfred Kleinknecht, C.W.M. Naastepad, Servaas Storm and Robert Vergeer 9. The Unemployment Impact of Financial Crises Enrico Marelli and Marcello Signorelli