Iceland and the International Financial Crisis
Subtitle: Boom, Bust and Recovery
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jan 28, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781137331991
Description: In the years leading up to the Crash of 2008, Iceland had been triumphed in world business media as an economic miracle. Its new breed of Viking Capitalism had become rock stars of the global finance driven economy, even while it was testing the foundations of Europe's financial system. Eirikur Bergmann applies Postcolonial analysis to explain the paradigmatic case of Iceland's fantastical boom, bust and rapid recovery after the Crash. His critical approach to the claims of the financialization advocates relates the questions of the national economy and globalisation to current trends in Europe and the World.--
Notes: Source title: Iceland and the International Financial Crisis: Boom, Bust and Recovery (International Political Economy Series)