Critical and Feminist Perspectives on Financial and Economic Crises Hardback
Edited by Sakiko (The New School, New York, USA) Fukuda-Parr, James (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) Heintz, Stephanie (University of Vermont, Burlington, USA) Seguino
Hardback
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Economic and financial crises have become perennial features of today’s global economy.
Macroeconomic theories of crisis, including the global crisis that unfolded in 2008, emphasize the role of financial deregulation; capital flow imbalances; and growing debt, fueled by income and wealth inequality.
These approaches tend to be divorced from feminist thinking which analyzes broader distributional dynamics transmitted through structural channels and government policy responses, with an emphasis on gender, race, class and ethnicity.
This volume brings together innovative thinking from heterodox macroeconomists and feminist economists to explore the causes, consequences, and ramifications of economic crises.
By doing so, it highlights aspects of the economy that are frequently overlooked or ignored, such as the impact of crises on the vast amount of unpaid work which women perform relative to men. The collection of international studies assembled here takes an innovative approach to analyzing a range of issues, from the subprime mortgage crisis to the gendered effects of austerity to the role of the International Monetary Fund in governing an unstable global economy.
In so doing, it looks beyond causes and consequences and points to new directions for macroeconomic and financial policy.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Feminist Economics.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:27/04/2015
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- ISBN:9781138855014
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:27/04/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138855014
