The Global Crash Towards a New Global Financial Regime?

The financial crisis hit the global economy unexpectedly from August 2007 producing consequences comparable to the ones experienced in the course of the 1930s. This book provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary account of the events leading to the financial crisis, its institutional causes and consequences, its economic characteristics and its socio-political implications. This book represents a unique opportunity to gather the opinions of established experts on financial markets from different academic disciplines and from a different academic traditions debating over the future of the global financial order. Leading economists are confronted with leading political scientists in an effort to assess the future of global financial stability and to propose solutions to the problems envisaged. This book is essential reading for all interested in macroeconomics, political economy, globalization studies and political science.

Leila Simona Talani has been at King's College London since 2009. She was previously at the University of Bath, at the London School of Economics and at the UN in Cairo. She gained a PhD with Distinction from the European University Institute in Florence in 1998. She is the author of Betting For and Against EMU (2000); European Political Economy (2004); Between Growth and Stability (2008); Back to Maastricht (2008); EU and the Balkans (2008); The Future of EMU (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and From Egypt to Europe (2010).