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Europe in Crisis : Bolt from the Blue?.
This book analyzes the European Great Recession of 2008-12, its economic and social causes, its historical roots, and the policies adopted by the European Union to find a way out of it. It contains explicit debates with several economists and analysts on some of the most controversial questions abou...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of tables; Preface; Introduction: "Unprecedented freedom from cyclical instability"; 1 Variations on a theme: Iceland, Greece, and Ireland's road toward the crisis; Variation no. 1: Iceland; Variation no. 2: Greece; Variation no. 3: Ireland; 2 The fall-of 2008: from the financial crisis to the crisis of the euro; The exploding financial crisis; Portugal; Italy; Spain; Do the "transition" Eastern peripheries have a special crisis?; Hungary and Latvia: lost in transition?; The all-European crisis; The decline of the real economy; The crisis of the euro
- 3 The economic causes: contemporary European capitalism: The financialized, deregulated market system in the globalized world economy and partially integrated EuropeThe financialized capitalist system; Financialization and globalization; The deregulated market system; The structural tribulations of the European Union and the euro-zone; The "original sin" of the euro's construction; 4 The social causes: living beyond our means; The new dream: consumption; A new social setting for consumer society; Consumerism; Consumer infrastructure and stimulus; Credit consumerism
- Will "Social Europe" be rebuilt?5 Which way Europe? Managing the economic crisis and the way out; Crisis management: stimulus packages and bailouts; Crisis management: austerity measures; The return to a regulated market system; Structural-institutional changes in the European Union; Future alternatives for the European Union and the euro-zone; Notes; Index