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Informationen zum Autor Wesley W. Widmaier is a Senior Research Fellow at Griffith University, Queensland and has been awarded two grants by the Australian Research Council totalling more than $600,000. For over a decade, he has advanced parallel research agendas into the construction of wars and crises as mechanisms of change. His research has been published in such journals as International Studies Quarterly and the Review of International Political Economy, and his work in the security field has been published as Presidential Rhetoric from Wilson to Obama: Constructing Crises, Fast and Slow (2015). He was Program Chair (2014) and Section Chair (2015) of the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association. Klappentext This book argues that intellectual stability causes recurrent market instability, tracing crises from the Great Crash to the Global Financial Crisis. Zusammenfassung Over the past century economic policy orders have been shaped by a paradoxical dynamic - intellectual stability has caused recurring market instability and crisis. In this book! Widmaier offers an analysis of these dynamics! tracing the construction! consolidation and crises of orders from the Great Crash to the Global Financial Crisis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Theoretical and Historical Foundations: 1. Economic ideas in political time: construction, conversion, and crisis; 2. The construction, conversion, and collapse of the progressive order; Part II. The Construction, Conversion, and Collapse of the Keynesian Order: 3. Constructing the Keynesian order: breaking finance and boosting labor; 4. Converting the Keynesian order: toward the neoclassical synthesis; 5. Constructing the Great Stagflation: from accommodation to transformation; Part III. The Construction, Conversion, and Collapse of the Neoliberal Order: 6. Constructing the neoliberal order: breaking labor and boosting finance; 7. Converting the neoliberal order: toward the New Keynesianism; 8. Constructing the Global Financial Crisis: from accommodation to iteration; Part IV. Conclusions: 9. Theoretical, historical and policy implications; Bibliography; Index....
