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Why the world economy needs a financial crash and other critical essays on finance and financial economics / Jan Toporowski.

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Why the world economy needs a financial crash and other critical essays on finance and financial economics / Jan Toporowski.
Author
Toporowski, Jan.
Publication
London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2010.

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xiii, 143 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
The essays in this volume explain how financial inflation shifts banking and financial markets towards more speculative activity, changing the financial structure of the economy and corroding the social and political values that underlie welfare state capitalism.
Series Statement
Anthem studies in development and globalization
Subject
  • Economie
  • Financiële crises
  • Inflation (Finance)
  • Financial crises
  • Capital assets pricing model
  • Capital market
  • International finance
  • Business cycles
  • banque > politique économique
  • Inflation, Economic
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Why the world economy needs a financial crash -- The economics of financial inflation -- Money in globalised times -- Neo-liberalism and international finance -- Financial innovation: better machines for financial inflation? -- The inflation of goodwill -- Leverage and balance sheet inflation -- Inflation in financial markets -- Asset inflation and deflation -- The culture of financial inflation -- Twentieth-century finance theory : the frauds of economic innocence (in memoriam J. K. Galbraith) -- Fischer Black's "revolution" -- Economic inequality and asset inflation -- The wisdom of property and the culture of the middle classes -- Financial crisis -- Everything you need to know about the financial crisis but couldn't find out because the experts were explaining it -- The limitations of financial stabilisation by central banks -- International business and the crisis -- Developing countries in the crisis transmission mechanism.
ISBN
  • 9780857289599 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0857289594 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780857289803 (papercover : alk. paper)
  • 0857289802 (papercover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010045758
OCLC
678537213
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library