Economic Crisis and Economic Thought - 9781138665378

Name: Economic Crisis and Economic Thought - 9781138665378
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Economic Crisis and Economic ThoughtAlternative Theoretical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis\nAuthor(s): Tommaso Gabellini, Simone Gasperin, Alessio Moneta\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138665378, 978-1138665378\nSynopsis\nThe ongoing economic crisis has revealed fundamental problems both in our economic system and the discipline which analyses it. This book presents a series of contrasting but complementary approaches in economic theory in order to offer a critical toolkit for examining the modern capitalist economy. The global economic crisis may have changed the world in which we live, but not the fundamental tenets of the discipline. \n\nThis book is a critical assessment of the relation between economic theory and economic crises: how intellectual thinking impacts on real economic events and vice versa. It aims at challenging the conventional way in which economics is taught in universities and later a.