Economic policy and the financial crisis / edited by Lukasz Mamica and Pasquale Tridico.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; About the book; Introduction; Part I Theory, policies and institutions to exit from the crisis: a macroeconomic approach; 1 Bridges to Babylon: critical economic policy --
from Keynesian macroeconomics to evolutionary macroeconomic simulation models; 2 Why did some countries perform better than others during the current crisis?; 3 Aiding economic recovery after the financial crisis. 4 Could more flexibility of labour markets help to resume growth? Lessons of an amended Kaleckian model5 Institutions and youth labour markets in Europe during the crisis; Part II Financial regulations for better economic stability; 6 Financial regulations for minimizing economic and social crises: an evolutionary developmental analysis reckoning with unequally rational individuals; 7 'Liquidity' in light of the shadow banking system: lessons from the two crises; 8 Financial instability and functional finance: a Lerner-Minsky perspective. 9 Fiscal consolidation and sovereign debt risk in balance-sheet recessions: an agent-based approachPart III Competitiveness and sustainability in time of crisis; 10 Leading factors for catching-up by developing economies: conclusions from the time of crisis; 11 Added value of design as a factor of firms' competitiveness in times of crises; 12 The decent work basic-relations-fairness approach in a context of crisis in Italy; 13 The cooperative firm: a non-capitalist model for the Occupy Movement; 14 Active employment policy in the EU and in Poland: a Gordian knot or inertia enchanted in words?

Includes bibliographical references and index.