The Crisis and Beyond: Thinking Outside the Box

Abstract: In this paper the author attempts an analysis of the current financial/economic crisis that is wider ranging and more fundamental than he has been able to find. He discusses alternatives to the financial bailouts and shows how the crisis could have been dealt with more efficiently and at little cost to taxpayers. Finally, the author discusses fundamental reforms that would reduce the volatility of financial markets and increase their efficiency. He reviews some social science literature that views the current crisis as an episode in the secular decline of the United States and more generally of the Western Democracies. The timidity of current reforms, which is striking when compared to those that followed the excesses of the Gilded Age and the Great Depression, can be understood in this framework. The author concludes that the industrialized world is now dominated by a ‘financial-political complex’ that maximizes speculative profits in good times and socializes losses in times of crisis.

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
The Crisis and Beyond: Thinking Outside the Box ; volume:4 ; number:1 ; year:2010 ; extent:63
Economics / Journal articles. Journal articles ; 4, Heft 1 (2010) (gesamt 63)

Urheber

DOI
10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2010-23
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2412130923160.039373536710
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