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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453029203321

Titolo

After the great recession : the struggle for economic recovery and growth / / edited by Barry Z. Cynamon, Steven M. Fazzari, Mark Setterfield ; foreword by Robert Kuttner [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-139-88861-7

1-139-56436-6

1-139-55576-6

1-139-55451-4

1-139-55205-8

1-139-54955-3

1-139-05958-0

1-283-74617-4

1-139-55080-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 340 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

330.973

Soggetti

Recessions - United States - History - 21st century

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009

Unemployment - Effect of inflation on - United States - History - 21st century

Keynesian economics

United States Economic policy 2009-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

; Part One. Introduction and Overview: ; 1. Understanding the great recession / Barry Z. Cynamon, Steven M. Fazzari, and Mark Setterfield; ; 2. America's exhausted paradigm: macroeconomic causes of the financial crisis and great recession / Thomas I. Palley -- ; Part Two. Emergence of Financial Instability: ; 3. Minsky's money manager capitalism: assessment and reform / L. Randall Wray; ; 4. Trying to serve two masters: the dilemma of financial regulation / Jan Kregel; ; 5. How bonus-driven 'rainmaker' financial firms enrich top employees,



destroy shareholder value, and create systemic financial instability / James Crotty -- ; Part Three. Household Spending and Debt: Source of Past Growth-Seeds of Recent Collapse: ; 6. The end of the consumer age / Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari; ; 7. Wages, demand and U.S. macroeconomic travails: diagnosis and prognosis / Mark Setterfield -- ; Part Four. Global Dimensions of U.S. Crisis: ; 8. Global imbalances and U.S. trade in the great recession and its aftermath / Robert A. Blecker -- ; Part Five. Economic Policy after the Great Recession: ; 9. Confronting the Kindleberger moment: credit, fiscal, and regulatory policy to avoid economic disaster / Gerald Epstein; ; 10. Fiscal policy: the recent record and lessons for the future / Dean Baker; ; 11. No need to panic about U.S. government deficits / Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari; ; 12. Fiscal policy for the great recession and beyond / Pavlina R. Tcherneva -- ; Part Six. ; The Way Forward: ; 13. Demand, finance, and uncertainty beyond the great recession / Barry Z. Cynamon, Steven M. Fazzari, and Mark Setterfield.

Sommario/riassunto

The severity of the Great Recession and the subsequent stagnation caught many economists by surprise. But a group of Keynesian scholars warned for some years that strong forces were leading the US toward a deep, persistent downturn. This book collects essays about these events from prominent macroeconomists who developed a perspective that predicted the broad outline and many specific aspects of the crisis. From this point of view, the recovery of employment and revival of strong growth requires more than short-term monetary easing and temporary fiscal stimulus. Economists and policy makers need to explore how the process of demand formation failed after 2007 and where demand will come from going forward. Successive chapters address the sources and dynamics of demand, the distribution and growth of wages, the structure of finance and challenges from globalization, and inform recommendations for monetary and fiscal policies to achieve a more efficient and equitable society.