The Great Recession

  • The Great Recession
    The Great Recession
    By David B. Grusky, Bruce Western, Christopher Wimer

    Officially over in 2009, the Great Recession is now generally acknowledged to be the most devastating global economic crisis since the Great Depression.

  • The Great Recession
    The Great Recession
    By Michael S. H. Heng

    R Taggart Murphy (2009). In the Eye of the Storm: Updating the Economics of Global Turbulence, an Introduction to Robert Brenner's Update, The AsiaPacific Journal, 49-1-09 December 7. 4. Richard C Koo (2009).

  • The Great Recession: Market Failure or Policy Failure?
    The Great Recession: Market Failure or Policy Failure?
    By Robert L. Hetzel

    These "market-disorder" views emphasize excessive risk taking in financial markets and the need for government regulation. The present book argues for the alternative "monetary-disorder" view of recessions.

  • The Great Recession: Market Failure or Policy Failure?
    The Great Recession: Market Failure or Policy Failure?
    By Robert L. Hetzel

    These 'market-disorder' views emphasize excessive risk taking in financial markets and the need for government regulation. The present book argues for the alternative 'monetary-disorder' view of recessions.

  • The Great Recession: Lessons for Central Bankers
    The Great Recession: Lessons for Central Bankers
    By Stanley Fischer, Zvi Eckstein, Jacob Braude

    Here, experts assess the role of central banks in responding to the recent financial crisis and in preventing future crises.

  • The Great Recession
    The Great Recession
    By Michael Roberts

    Michael Roberts forecast that it would happen a few years before and in this book he explains why the Great Recession happened - relying on Marx's analysis of the laws of motion in a capitalist economy.

  • The Great Recession: History, Ideology, Hubris and Nemesis
    The Great Recession: History, Ideology, Hubris and Nemesis
    By Michael S. H. Heng

    Deals with the 2008 financial crisis and the recession. This book takes the real economy as the starting point and situates the downturn within the societal context over the last several decades.

  • The Great Recession: Rethinking Macroeconomics for Employment and Development
    The Great Recession: Rethinking Macroeconomics for Employment and Development
    By Iyanatul Islam, Anis Chowdhury

    The chapters in this volume were written as commentaries between mid-2008 and early-2016 in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008-2009.

  • The Great Recession
    The Great Recession
    By David B. Grusky, Bruce Western, Christopher Wimer

    Officially over in 2009, the Great Recession is now generally acknowledged to be the most devastating global economic crisis since the Great Depression.