Global Minotaur America, Europe and the Future of the World Economy

Name: Global Minotaur America, Europe and the Future of the World Economy
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ISBN: 9781780324500

ISBN-10: 1780324502

ISBN-13: 9781780324500

Edition: 2nd 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Yanis Varoufakis, Paul Mason

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Revised and updated, The Global Minotaur, originally published in 2011 is a provocative book, by one of the most dynamic and reasonable of contemporary economists, takes a long view of the global economy and describes how, after the collapse in the 1970s of the post-war economic order, the world began sending incredible amounts of capital to Wall Street - just as the ancient Athenians paid regular tribute to the mythical Cretan Minotaur. It was this flow of money that became the "engine" that pulled the world economy through to the financial collapse of 2008.Europe's crisis today is just one symptom of a global "system" which is now as unsustainable as it is imbalanced. Full of up to the…

Book details

List price: $8.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 2/14/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.77" wide x 11.03" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Abbreviations


Preface to the New Edition


Acknowledgements



Introduction



Laboratories of the future



The Global Plan



The Global Minotaur



The beast's handmaidens



Crash



The handmaidens strike back



The Minotaur's global legacy: the dimming sun, the wounded tigers, a flighty Europa and an anxious dragon



A world without the Minotaur?


Postcript to the New Edition


Notes


Recommended Reading


Select Bibliography


Index