The book begins by providing a broad critical perspective on key concepts such as freedom, free market, free trade, globalisation and financialisation, before going on to analyse the long and deep recent crisis as a result of the neoliberal policy strategy adopted since the early 1980s.
Alessandro Vercelli teaches Economics of Sustainable Development in the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena, Italy, is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, UK, and is a life member of the Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK. He has served as Vice President of the International Economic Association and member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Economic Association. He has also been a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, UK, a British Council Senior Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford University, UK, and a visiting scholar at many distinguished academic institutions.
Innehållsförteckning
Chapter 1) Introduction.- Part 1: The Co-Evolution of Markets, Economic Policy and Economics.- Chapter 2) Financialisation.- Chapter 3) Globalisation.- Chapter 4) The Co-Evolution of Economy and Economics: The Twin Crises.- Part 2: The Great Recession and Its Policy Implications.- Chapter 5) Crisis and Sustainability.- Chapter 6) The Eurocrisis.- Chapter 7) Policy Implications.- Chapter 8) Concluding Remarks.