Great Recession, The: History, Ideology, Hubris And Nemesis

Great Recession, The: History, Ideology, Hubris And Nemesis

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Michael Siam-heng Heng, Heng
World Scientific Publishing Company
EAN: 9789814338639
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Many books on the 2008 financial crisis and the current recession focus on the financial sector. Unlike them, this book takes the real economy as the starting point and it situates the downturn within the societal context over the last several decades. Important elements of the story include global manufacturing overcapacity and declining profitability, failure of advanced industrial economies to make a quantum jump in discoveries and innovations across a broad range of technologies, ascent of neo-liberalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Asian financial crisis, the Japanese &quote;lost decade&quote;, and the dot-com boom. This provides the backdrop of the birth of a market society, deregulation, easy credit, and financial excesses.The financial crisis reveals much that has gone astray in the business world over the last few decades - short term thinking, manipulation of figures and image management at the cost of the basics. The financial sector has become an arena for accounting shenanigans and corporate skullduggery. It is also a symptom of deeper social and cultural change. Crisis of a very serious nature functions as a cleansing exercise. Already we have seen debates which re-examine values and ideas, state policy and business practices. If the world could rise to the challenge, history will view the crisis as a blessing in disguise and thus render it in positive terms.
EAN 9789814338639
ISBN 981433863X
Typ produktu Ebook
Vydavatel World Scientific Publishing Company
Datum vydání 16. července 2010
Stránky 288
Jazyk English
Země Singapore
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