Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Frequent Abbreviations and Acronyms ; 1: Introduction: Approach and Basic Concepts; 1.1 Brief Overview; 1.2 The Approach; 1.3 Empirical Evidence and Interpretation: The Case of the Phillips Curve; 1.4 The Role of Vision in Empirical Science; 1.5 Growth and Development: Three Visions; 1.6 Sustainable Development, Fairness, and Free Markets; 1.7 The Life Cycle of Development Paradigms; Notes; Bibliography; Part I: Globalisation and Financialisation in a Long-Run Perspective; 2: Freedom, Free Markets, and Neoliberalism; 2.1 Introduction

2.2 The Concept of Freedom2.3 Free Market and Economic Liberalism; 2.4 Varieties of Economic Liberalism: Evolution and Suggested Definitions; 2.5 Neoliberalism: Evolution and Definitions; 2.6 The Misleading Zero-Sum Game Between State and Market; 2.7 Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; 3: The Globalisation of Markets; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Globalisation after the Industrial Revolution; 3.3 The First Globalisation; 3.4 The Second Globalisation; 3.5 The Free-Trade Doctrine; 3.6 Cross-Country Movements of Productive Factors; 3.7 Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography

4: The Evolution of Financialisation4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Financialisation as a Recurring Phenomenon; 4.3 Financialisation as a Long-Run Tendency: The Driving Role of Financial Innovations; 4.4 Financialisation and Sustainability; 4.5 Differences Between First and Second Financialisation; 4.6 Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Part II: The Great Recession: Causes and Consequences; 5: The Neoliberal Trajectory and the Crisis; 5.1 Introduction1; 5.2 The Origins of the Second Financialisation; 5.3 The "Monetarist Disinflation"; 5.4 The Roaring 1990s

5.5 The "Zero Years" and The Genesis of the Great Recession5.6 The Propagation of the Crisis; 5.7 Concluding Remarks: The Unsustainability of the Neoliberal Model of Development; Notes; Bibliography; 6: The Neoliberal Financialisation1; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Neoliberal Revolution in Finance; 6.3 The Genesis of Shadow Banking; 6.4 Contagion and Propagation; 6.5 Regulation of Shadow Banking; 6.6 Towards a Sustainable Finance; 6.7 Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; 7: Environment and Sustainability; 7.1 Introduction

7.2 The Clash Between Environmental Policies and Neoliberal Policy Strategy7.3 The Delusion of Market-Based Instruments: The Case of EU ETS; 7.4 The Ecological Imprint and the Crisis: A Tale of Two Debts; 7.5 The Unsustainability of the Energy System and Climate Change; 7.6 Technological and Development Trajectories; 7.7 The Role of Public Investment; 7.8 Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Part III: Epilogue; 8: The Eurocrisis; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 The Origins of the Eurocrisis; 8.3 The Propagation of the Crisis in the Eurozone; 8.4 The Conventional Explanation

This book offers a novel interpretation of the Great Recession and the ensuing Euro Crisis as a consequence of the evolution of capitalism since the 1970s. Chapters argue that the neoliberal development trajectory pursued in recent decades is unsustainable, and posit that neither sound macroeconomics nor empirical data support the unqualified faith in free markets that inspired it. The book begins by providing a broad critical perspective on key concepts such as freedom, free market, free trade, globalisation and financialisation, before going on to analyse the long and deep recent crisis as a result of the neoliberal policy strategy adopted since the early 1980s. The alternative narrative outlined in the book provides insights into the policy strategy required to achieve a sustainable development trajectory. Taken from the Publisher Site.