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Informationen zum Autor Heikki Patomaki is Professor of World Politics at the University of Helsinki! Finland. Previously he has also worked as a Professor of World Politics and Economy at the Nottingham Trent University! UK! and RMIT University! Melbourne! Australia. In 2012 he acted as a Visiting Professor at the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto! Japan. Patomaki's research interests include philosophy and methodology of social sciences! peace research! futures studies! economic theory! global political economy! and global political theory. His most recent book is The Political Economy of Global Security. War! Future Crises and Changes in Global Governance (Routledge! 2008). He is currently working on two new books! Unprincipled Economics (with Jamie Morgan) and Global Futures. Patomaki is a founding member of NIGD (Network Institute for Global Democratisation) and has also been an activist in the international ATTAC movement from its inception! currently chairing ATTAC Finland. Klappentext The last couple of years have seen the eurozone lurch from crisis to calamity, and in this eye-opening new book, Heikki Patomaki forensically dissects the current crisis, revealing its origins lie in the instability and crises that have driven the process of financialisation since the early 1970s. Already a runaway bestseller in the author's native Finland. Zusammenfassung Patomaki presents a radical new vision for 'global economic democracy' as the only viable way out of the current crisis. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. The Economic Theory of Debt Crises 3. The Predictability of Global Financial Turmoil 4. Contradictions at the Heart of the EMU 5. The Trouble with the EU's Official Reform Proposals 6. European Futures 7. How Should Debt Crises be Solved? 8. Towards Democratic Global Keynesianism Glossary of Key Terms and Acronyms Bibliography
