The Global Financial Crisis - 9780857936059

The Global Financial CrisisWhat Have We Learnt?\nAuthor(s): Steven Kates\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780857936059, 978-0857936059\nSynopsis\nThe Global Financial Crisis is a unique investigation into the causes of the most savage economic downturn experienced since the Great Depression. Employing wide and divergent perspectives - which are themselves critically examined - this study analyzes the measures that have been taken to restore our economies to acceptable rates of unemployment and growth. This book brings together economists, all of whom are from outside the mainstream and who collectively represent the broadest range of views from across the entire spectrum of economic opinion, to examine what has been learned from this experience. With the advent of this challenging new work, these alternative perspectives should now receive a far closer examination given the unmistakable economiy