Icelands Financial Crisis by Valur Ingimundarson, Philippe U... - 9781138598423

Taylor & Francis

Icelands Financial CrisisThe Politics of Blame, Protest, and Reconstruction\nAuthor(s): Valur Ingimundarson, Philippe Urfalino, Irma Erlingsdttir\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138598423, 978-1138598423\nSynopsis\nBeing the first casualty of the international financial crisis, Iceland was, in many ways, turned into a laboratory when it came to responding to one of the largest corporate failures on record. \n\nThis edited volume offers the most wide-ranging treatment of the Icelandic financial crisis and its political, economic, social, and constitutional consequences. Interdisciplinary, with contributions from historians, economists, sociologists, legal scholars, political scientists and philosophers, it also compares and contrasts the Icelandic experience with other national and global crises. It examines the economic magnitude of the crisis, the social and political responses, and the unique transitional jus.