The economic crisis reader
Subtitle: readings in economics, politics, and social policy from Dollars & Sense
By: edited by Gerald Friedman [and others]
Publisher: Economic Affairs Bureau
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781878585851
Subjects: Economic history; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Histoire économique; Crise financière mondiale, 2008-2009
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1.; title: General explanations of the crisis --; title: Inequality, power, and ideology  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: Recession, depression, repression: what's in a name?  -- John Miller; title: That 70's crisis  -- Alejandro Reuss; title: Crisis and neoliberal capitalism  -- David Kotz; title: Capitalism hits the fan  -- Richard D. Wolff; title: We're all Minskyites now  -- Robert Pollin -- The; title: "credit tsunami"  -- Steve Keen; title: Profits, the business cycle, and the current crisis  -- Paul Mattick -- The; title: greed fallacy  -- Arthur MacEwan -- Ch. 2.; title: Warning signs --; title: Bubble trouble  -- Dean Baker -- A; title: house of cards  -- Tamara Draut -- and -- Adria Scharf; title: (Mis)understanding a banking industry in transition  -- William K. Black; title: America's growing fringe economy  -- Howard Karger; title: Financialization: a primer  -- Ramaa Vasudevan; title: Private equity exposed  -- Orlando Segura, Jr.; title: Hedge funds  -- Arthur MacEwan -- The; title: Fed and America's distorted expansion  -- Thomas I. Palley; title: Who cares if Bear Stearns Fails?  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: Can the Fed handle a systemic crisis? Maybe  -- John D'Arista -- Ch. 3. -- The; title: housing crisis -- -- The; title: homeownership myth  -- Howard Karger; title: Confidence trick  -- John Miller; title: Renters in the crosshairs  -- Daniel Fireside; title: How to stop the foreclosures?  -- Fred Moseley -- The; title: bailout of Freddie Mae and Fannie Mac  -- Fred Moseley; title: Who gets those trillions?  -- Arthur MacEwan -- Ch. 4. -- The; title: financial crisis --; title: From tulips to mortgage-backed securities  -- Gerald Friedman; title: Ponzi schemes and speculative bubbles  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: Derivatives and deregulation  -- Marty Wolfson; title: Dealing with a rotten tooth  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: Time for permanent nationalization!  -- Fred Moseley; title: Trust your gut -- William Greider; title: Ch. 5.; title: Monetary policy --; title: Pushing on strings  -- Gerald Friedman; title: Bernake's bad teachers  -- Gerald Friedman -- The; title: bailouts revisited  -- Marty Wolfson; title: Fixing the Fed  -- William Greider; title: Keynes and the limits of monetary policy  -- Alejandro Reuss -- Ch. 6.; title: Fiscal policy --; title: Stimulus whining  -- John Miller; title: How I learned to stop worrying and love the deficit  -- John Miller; title: Responding to revisionism  -- Gerald Friedman; title: Fiscal policy and "crowding out" --  -- Alejandro Reuss; title: Why are things getting worse and worse?  -- Arthur MacEwan -- The; title: economic crisis in the states  -- Gerald Friedman; title: State budget blues  -- Marianne Hill; title: Bail out the safety net  -- Randy Albelda; title: Saving energy creates jobs  -- Heidi Garrett-Peltier -- A; title: new WPA?  -- Ryan A. Dodd; title: Rebuilding the auto industry from the wheels up  -- Alejandro Reuss -- Ch. 7. -- The; title: international crisis --; title: Putting the "global" in the global economic crisis  -- Smriti Rao; title: (Economic) freedom's just another word for ... crisis-prone  -- John Miller -- The; title: giant pool of money  -- Arthur MacEwan -- The; title: specter of capital flight  -- Marie Duggan; title: Tax havens and the financial crisis  -- Rachel Keeler; title: Beyond the world's creditors' cartel  -- Dariush Sokolov; title: No bailouts for AIDS  -- Mara Kardas-Nelson -- The; title: Beijing statement on the global economic crisis -- -- The; title: Caracas statement on the global economic crisis; title: Ch. 9.; title: Workers and the crisis -- -- The; title: global crisis and the world labor movement  -- Dan LaBotz -- The; title: real audacity of hope  -- Kari Lyderson -- and -- James Tracy; title: Corporate America's counter-stimulus strategy  -- Roger Bybee; title: Worker direct action grows in wake of financial meltdown  -- Immanuel Ness -- and -- Stacy Warner Maddern; title: Gender and the recession  -- Heather Boushey -- The; title: real unemployment rate hits a 68-year high  -- John Miller; title: Unemployment insurance: a broken system  -- Marianne Hill; title: Should we be talking about living wages now?  -- Jeannette Wicks-Lim; title: Contributors.