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From the financial crash to the climate emergency and Covid, this book demonstrates that recent crises have had unequal impacts, that they require a heterodox approach to economics for their understanding, and new ways of thinking are needed to address them.
List of contents
Introduction: Permacrisis, Overlapping crises, Inter-crises
Section 1: Inequalities and Alternative Approaches Chapter 1 Heterodox Economic Policy outlook: A proven boon at the time of a global pandemic Chapter 2 The Reach of Fiscal Stimulus for Urban Women Informal Sector Workers in Bengaluru during COVID 19 Chapter 3 The impact of Covid-19 on the economy of lower-income Bogotá families: An analysis using Polanyi's concept of the economy as an instituted process
Section 2: Finance and the Causes of Crises Chapter 4 On the Financial Instability Hypothesis and its Global Implications post-Covid19 Chapter 5 Estimating Economic Surplus in Argentina. The Neoliberal Strategy, Its Crisis and the Neo-Developmentalist Model (1991-2015) Chapter 6 The commodity character of Marx's theory of money: an assessment of the debate
Section 3: Economics Education and Change Chapter 7 Qualitative Economics and the Opportunity to Push for Heterodoxy in the Classroom Chapter 8 Conclusion: "Crisis of What?" "Crisis for Whom?"
About the author
Ariane Agunsoye is Senior Lecturer in Economics in the Institute of Management Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
Thoralf Dassler is Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster, UK.
Eurydice Fotopoulou is an Economist for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). All views expressed here are of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF, its Executive Board, or IMF management.
Jon Mulberg is Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at the Open University, UK.
Summary
From the financial crash to the climate emergency and Covid, this book demonstrates that recent crises have had unequal impacts, that they require a heterodox approach to economics for their understanding, and new ways of thinking are needed to address them.
