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Globalized Finance and Varieties of Capitalism

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137560278

ISBN: 978-1-349-71953-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Feb 26, 2016

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Introduction

van Zon, Hans

Pages: 1 –4

[In September 2008 the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers came as a complete surprise, as was the fact that the financial system was on the verge of implosion. Media, economists and politicians failed to notice the biggest asset bubble in history, the toxic brew of sub-prime mortgages and financial...
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The United States: Casino Capitalism Unleashed

van Zon, Hans

Pages: 5 –31

[The Great Depression of the 1930s convinced the US political elite that the economy needed to be properly regulated in order to prosper. The Depression stands out because of its depth and the fact that the whole capitalist world was affected. It occurred after a period of deregulation of the...
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The United States: The Great Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath

van Zon, Hans

Pages: 32 –48

[Very few in the political, business, scientific and media elites spotted the emerging financial crisis of 2007–08. Most were blind to the dangers of the house-price bubble and the massive gambling with financial derivatives and subprime mortgages.]
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The Variety of Capitalism and Neoliberalism

van Zon, Hans

Pages: 49 –77

[All across the advanced capitalist world neoliberalism spread, from the Anglo-Saxon countries onward. Here, the interplay of endogenous and exogenous forces that brought about neoliberal change in five advanced capitalist countries will be analyzed, up to the Great Financial Crisis. Although...
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European Monetary Union and Freedom for Capital

van Zon, Hans

Pages: 78 –95

[The Maastricht Treaty (January 1992) highlighted a turning point in the development of the EU and can be considered as the root of the present EU crisis. In Maastricht (the Netherlands) the monetary union was agreed. The negotiations for the Maastricht Treaty took place during upheaval in...
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The Euro as a Divisive Force

van Zon, Hans

Pages: 96 –120

[In 2010 the epicenter of the Great Financial Crisis crossed the Atlantic, from the United States to the EU. In Europe in early 2010, attention shifted from the private to the public sector when it appeared that Greek public debts were not sustainable. The ‘sovereign debt crisis’ started here,...
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Globalization, Financialization and US Power

van Zon, Hans

Pages: 121 –144

[The opening up of the Global South and associated corporate globalization was crucial in realizing the epochal changes in developed capitalism. It will be argued that the US- and US-led institutions of global economic governance played a major role in creating the new institutional...
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The Variety of Capitalism after the Great Financial Crisis

van Zon, Hans

Pages: 145 –156

[Despite the fact that all developed capitalist countries share common problems and tendencies, the Great Financial Crisis that started in 2007–08 in the United States has, above all, destabilized the financial systems in the North Atlantic countries. Chapter 5 shows that the crisis in the...
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Why Did Economists and Neoliberals Get It So Wrong?

van Zon, Hans

Pages: 157 –170

[On 1 August 2007 the IMF wrote that markets have shown that they can and do self-correct: ‘The financial system has shown impressive resilience, including to recent difficulties in the subprime mortgage market’.1 The IMF, EU, OECD and major economic think tanks failed to identify bubbles in the...
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Reclaiming Sovereignty

van Zon, Hans

Pages: 171 –186

[This chapter is about how the Great Financial Crisis brought about a crisis of corporate and financial globalization. Firstly, the consequences of the financial crisis for the global economy (financial wars, new asset bubbles, food insecurity) are analyzed. Secondly, the decline of the West,...

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