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An Institutionalist Perspective on the Global Financial Crisis

In: Macroeconomic Theory and its Failings

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This innovative book focuses on the current global financial crisis and the inadequacies of the economic theories being used to guide policy. In so doing, it tackles the economic theories that have been used firstly to understand its causes and thereafter to contain the damage it has brought.

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  • Charles J. Whalen, 2010. "An Institutionalist Perspective on the Global Financial Crisis," Chapters, in: Steven Kates (ed.), Macroeconomic Theory and its Failings, chapter 14, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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