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Financial Stability in the Aftermath of the 'Great Recession'

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  1. Philip Arestis

    1. University of Cambridge, UK

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  2. Elias Karakitsos

    1. Global Economic Research LLC, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Philip Arestis, Elias Karakitsos
    Pages 1-12

  3. Origins of the ‘Great Recession’

    • Philip Arestis, Elias Karakitsos
    Pages 13-40

  4. The Theoretical Framework That Underpins the Origins of the ‘Great Recession’

    • Philip Arestis, Elias Karakitsos
    Pages 41-63

  5. Too Much Liquidity: The Source of the Trouble

    • Philip Arestis, Elias Karakitsos
    Pages 64-87

  6. Anaemic Recovery: The US Housing Market and the Consumer

    • Philip Arestis, Elias Karakitsos
    Pages 88-110

  7. Anaemic Recovery: The Vicious Circle of Consumption and Investment

    • Philip Arestis, Elias Karakitsos
    Pages 111-139

  8. The Sovereign Debt Crisis

    • Philip Arestis, Elias Karakitsos
    Pages 140-163

  9. Lessons From the ‘Great Recession’ for Both Theory and Economic Policy

    • Philip Arestis, Elias Karakitsos
    Pages 164-192

  10. Financial Stability and Proposals to Restore It

    • Philip Arestis, Elias Karakitsos
    Pages 193-226

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 227-260
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The financial crisis and the ensued 'great recession' are primarily caused by the excessive liquidity that was created in the last thirty years or so of inequality that benefited greatly the financial sector, deregulation and financial liberalisation as well as financial innovation.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Cambridge, UK

    Philip Arestis

  • Global Economic Research LLC, UK

    Elias Karakitsos

About the authors

Philip Arestis is Director of Research, Cambridge Centre for Economics and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK; Professor of Economics, Department of Applied Economics V, University of the Basque Country, Spain; Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Utah, US; Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute, New York, US; Visiting Professor, Leeds Business School, University of Leeds, UK; Professorial Research Associate, Department of Finance and Management Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK; and current holder of the British Hispanic Foundation 'Queen Victoria Eugenia' British Hispanic Chair of Doctoral Studies. He is Chief Academic Adviser to the UK Government Economic Service (GES) on Professional Developments in Economics. He has published as sole author or editor, as well as co-author and co-editor, a number of books, contributed in the form of invited chapters to numerous books, produced research reports for research institutes, and has published widely in academic journals.

Elias Karakitsos is chairman of Global Economic Research, a think tank for the world economy, financial markets and shipping, and Associate Member of the Centre for Economic and Public Policy, University of Cambridge. He was a professor at Imperial College, Head of Economics for 10 years and has acted as an advisor to the House of Commons, the UK, US and EU governments and financial institutions, including Citigroup, Oppenheimer, Allianz, Crédit Agricole and Standard Chartered. He is the author of five books/monographs, 90 papers in learned journals and more than 500 reports on the world economy financial markets and shipping.

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