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Unemployment and the Global Financial Crisis: Who Suffered Most and Why?

In: Regulatory Failure and the Global Financial Crisis

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  • Melisa Bond
  • Noel Gaston

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This fascinating book presents a lively discussion of key issues resulting from the recent financial crisis. The expert contributors explore why the global financial crisis occurred, how it destroyed wealth, triggered mass unemployment and created an unprecedented loss of control on employment, monetary policy and government budgets.

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  • Melisa Bond & Noel Gaston, 2012. "Unemployment and the Global Financial Crisis: Who Suffered Most and Why?," Chapters, in: Mohamed Ariff & John H. Farrar & Ahmed M. Khalid (ed.), Regulatory Failure and the Global Financial Crisis, chapter 5, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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