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What Is the Truth About the Great Recession and Increasing Inequality?

Dialogues on Disputed Issues and Conflicting Theories

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Authors:
  1. Mario Morroni

    1. Department of Political Sciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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  • Explains and compares different economic visions
  • Presents nine dialogues on increasing inequality, the Great Recession, and the Eurozone crisis
  • Critically discusses neoliberal ideologies
  • Comprehensible to the reader who is not an economist but wants to get to the truth regarding recent economic events

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Prologue

    • Mario Morroni
    Pages 1-4

  3. Increasing Inequality

    • Mario Morroni
    Pages 5-28

  4. The Failure to Predict the Great Recession

    • Mario Morroni
    Pages 29-46

  5. Why Fiscal Austerity?

    • Mario Morroni
    Pages 47-63

  6. Rolling Back the Welfare State

    • Mario Morroni
    Pages 65-75

  7. The State and the Market

    • Mario Morroni
    Pages 77-103

  8. The Gigantic German Trade Surplus and the Euro

    • Mario Morroni
    Pages 105-141

  9. Crisis Policy

    • Mario Morroni
    Pages 143-164

  10. Environmental Degradation

    • Mario Morroni
    Pages 165-181

  11. Industrial Policies

    • Mario Morroni
    Pages 183-190

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 191-204
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About this book

Have you ever puzzled over the causes of the 2007–8 financial crisis and wondered how it will affect all our futures? If so, this book is for you. Using imagined dialogue between three economists with contrasting theoretical perspectives and a student who knows little about economics, different interpretations are compared in straightforward, jargon-free language. The book explores both the consequences of neoliberal economic policies based on the belief in efficient, self-regulating markets and the implications of alternative economic visions formulated in response to the Great Recession. In all, nine dialogues are presented, each of which focuses on a key theme: increasing inequality, the failure of economists to predict the crash, the reasons for fiscal austerity, the rolling back of the welfare state, the roles of the state and the market, the repercussions of the German trade surplus and the Eurozone crisis, policies to confront the crisis, environmental degradation, and theneed for an industrial policy appropriate to the present day. The book will be ideal for both general readers and those embarking on the study of economics.





Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Sciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Mario Morroni

About the author

Mario Morroni is Professor of Economics at the University of Pisa and a Life Member of Clare Hall, College for Advanced Study, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). He has previously authored a book on technical change and production processes (Cambridge University Press, 1992) that received the Myrdal Prize and also a book on the theory of the firm (Cambridge University Press, 2006). He is the author of a number of further works in the areas of microeconomics, macroeconomics, labor economics, and industrial economics.

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