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950370
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b704740
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| Title & Author
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Macroeconomic theory and its failings : : alternative perspectives on the global financial crisis /\ edited by Steven Kates.
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| Publication Statement
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Cheltenham, UK ;Northampton, MA :: Edward Elgar,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1282534122
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: 1849803390
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: 9781282534124
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: 9781849803397
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1848448198
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9781848448193
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The ordinary economics of an extraordinary crisis; 3. Toward a new sustainable economy; 4. Looking at the crisis through Marx -- or is it the other way about?; 5. Incentive divergence and the global financial crisis; 6. The microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic disorder: an Austrian perspective on the Great Recession of 2008; 7. The crisis in economic theory: the dead end of Keynesian economics; 8. The coming depression and the end of economic delusion.
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| Abstract
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Focuses on the global financial crisis and the inadequacies of the economic theories used to guide policy. This title tackles the economic theories that have been used to understand its causes and thereafter to contain the damage it has brought.
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
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Macroeconomics.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Economics-- Macroeconomics.
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Macroeconomics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Economic Conditions.
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| Dewey Classification
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339
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HB172.5.M33 2010eb
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| Added Entry
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Kates, Steven,1948-
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