TY  - BOOK
AU  - Duménil,Gérard
AU  - Lévy,Dominique
TI  - The crisis of neoliberalism
SN  - 9780674072244
U1  - 330.12 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, London
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
KW  - Neoliberalism
KW  - United States
KW  - Capitalism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. The strategy of the US upper classes in neoliberalism: the success and failure of a bold endeavour -- 
2. The second reign of finance: classes and financial institutions. -- 
3. A tripolar class configuration: breaking wage-earning homogeneity -- 
4. Financialization and globalization: lifting barriers-losing control -- 
5. Neoliberalism trends: the US macro trajectory -- 
6. From the housing boom to the financial crisis: US macroeconomics after 2000 -- 
7. Financial crisis: storm i the center, global capitalism shaken -- 
8. The shadow of the Great Depression: difficult transitions -- 
9. A new social and global order: the economics and politics of the postrcrisis
N2  - Examines "the great contraction" of 2007-2010 within the context of the neoliberal globalization that began in the early 1980s. This new phase of capitalism greatly enriched the top 5 percent of Americans, including capitalists and financial managers, but at a significant cost to the country as a whole. Declining domestic investment in manufacturing, unsustainable household debt, rising dependence on imports and financing, and the growth of a fragile and unwieldy global financial structure threaten the strength of the dollar
ER  -