Global politics and financial governance
By: Randall Germain
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780230278424; 9780230278431
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; International finance; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics
Description: "The financial crisis of 2007-9 prompted many to ask how financial systems from America and Iceland to Russia and Hungary could have been so misgoverned that their near collapse plunged the entire world into recession. Randall Germain assess what needs to be done, and by whom, to avoid a repetition of what he calls the 'great freeze'"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Preface and Acknowledgments; title: Financial Governance and the State; title: Forging Financial Governance; title: Extending Financial Governance; title: Financial Governance and the Great Freeze; title: Global Politics and Financial Governance; title: Power and Governance in the Global Financial System; title: Conclusion: Global Governance and National Responsibility; title: Guide to Further Reading; title: Select Chronology of Financial Crises and Collapses.