Incluye índice.

Part 1. The financial side: the burden of debt and the loss of confidence p. 13-14.

1. Finance-dominated capitalism, re-distribution and the finacial and economic crises: a European perspective / Eckhard Hein. p.15-45.

2. The world in balance sheet recession: causes, cures and politics / Richard C. Koo. p.46-65.

3. All lucky breaks come to an end: the shortcomings of macroeconomic models following the financial crisis and the contribution of behavioural economics to the reconfiguration of macroeconomics / Nigel F. B. Allington ; John S. L. McCombie ; Maureen Pike. p.66-86.

4. The debt trap / Óscar Dejuán p.87-108.

Part 2. The balance of payments constraint: trade deficits as a source of risky debt p.109-110.

5. Controversial and novel features of the Eurozone crisis as a balance of payment crisis / Sergio Cesaratto. p.111-129.

6. Unhappy families are all alike: Minskyan cycles, Kaldorian growth, and the Eurozone perpheral crises / Alberto Bagnai. p.130-177.

7. The adjustment of current account imbalances within the European Monetary Union since the beginning of the Great Recession: some strengths and many weaknesses / Jesús Paúl ; Jorge Uxó. p.178-196.

8. The effects of the great recession of 2008 on the neo-Keynesian development experiences: the cases of Argentina and Brazil / Fabián Amico ; Alejandro Fiorito. p.197-224.

Part 3. The real side of the economy: the problem of effective demand and the failure of austerity policies p.225-226.

9. Net private savings in relation to the fovernment´s financial balance: some basic principles of macroeconomics disregarded by the European Union´s economic policy makers / Kazimierz Kaski ; Leon Podkaminer. p.227-234.

10. Bussness investment, growth and crisis / Ana-Rosa González, Philip Arestis ; Óscar Dejuán. p.235-253.

11. Does the effectiveness of fiscal stimulus depend on economic context? / Steven M. Fazzari. p.254-265.

12. Spain durng the Great Recession : tetering on the brink of collapse / Eladio Febrero ; Fernando Bermejo. p.266-293.