Every child, every classroom, every day: school leaders who are making equity a reality

INDICE: Preface. A Manifesto for the Taming of Capitalism. Challenges for Modern Democratic States. Rescue the Right to Work in Aging Societies. LegalizeBlack Market Labor. Defuse the Ticking Time Bombs of the Welfare State. Enroll 100% of Population in Pensions. Reduce State Indebtedness. Look for New Answers to Old Problems. Subsidize Start-ups in Disadvantaged Regions. The Mandateof the Democratic, Constitutional Welfare State: Stability, Reliability, Prosperity. Chapter 1 Midas Reveals How to Create Money through Credit Fraud. DoesProgress in Developing Money Equal Progress in the World Economy? The State as Accomplice, Controller of the Money Economy, Or Both? The Illusory World of Finance and Fictional Capital of Banks. Will Yesterday's Recipes Help Us Today? The Finance Sector Always Underestimates the Risks of its Innovations. Four Fatal Innovations of Global Banking. Essential Reforms. Four Conclusions from the Financial Crisis. Keynes, Properly Understood. Chapter 2 The Great Bluff. The American Way out of the Crisis. A Brief Tour of How We Got Here. How American Globalization Revolutionized Finance. Wanted: An Emporer with Clothes. HowGoldman Sachs Milked Bubble Trouble. Origins of the Financial Crisis. The Lost Lessons of Long-Term Capital Management. The Government Intervenes; Investors Panic. Obamanomics: Exploiting Crisis, Postponing Costs. The Debt Culture versus Hoarding and Investing. Austerity versus Stimulus: The Trillion Dollar Gap. Recasting the U.S.: Domestic Dynamism with Responsibility. Chapter 3 Giant with Feet of Clay. The European Union. What Services has the EU Rendered? The Euro: Not Dynamic but Dynamite. Is the EU on Its Way to Becoming a Nation-State? Do EU Institutions Induce Constitutional Infidelity? Can the Euro Survive? The Three Unknowns of the Current Bailout of the Euro. The Next Financial Adventure: A European State Bankruptcy Law. What Comes after the Euro? The Future of the EU: The Swiss Model. Chapter 4 The New New World. Can BRICs Save the Rich? Mimicking Past Economic Miracles. The Rise of the BRICs. Characteristics of the New New World. Legitimacy Lost. Decoupling and Demographics. One BRIC ata Time. China: Model or Enigma? The Kaleidoscope of India. Laid-back Brazil. Russian Realism: 'Dead End?'. Debt versus Investment and Savings in BRICs. TheGroup of 20 and Global Imbalances. The Roadmap to the New World Economy Has Changed. Chapter 5 Time for a New Bretton Woods. Crisis Prevention through Monetary Law. What Caused Bretton Woods to Fail? Floating Exchange Rates: A Compelling End? Living in the Non-system of Post-Bretton Woods. Keynes with a New Feature: Real (not Nominal) Fixed Exchange Rates. Chapter 6 Towards a Brave NewWorld Economy. Reducing Debt and Unemployment. The World Economy and Nation: States Are a System of Communicating Pipes. Democracy Begins and

• ISBN: 978-0-470-65176-6
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 07/04/2011
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• Idioma: Inglés