The Consequences of the Global Financial Crisis

Wyn Grant is Professor of Politics at the University of Warwick and vice-president for Europe and Africa of the International Political Science Association. He has written extensively on economic policy, government-business relations, pressure groups, and agricultural and environmental policy. Graham Wilson is Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Boston University. He previously taught at the Universities of Wisconsin-Madison and Essex.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Theory and Practice of Global Economic Governance in the Early 21st Century: the Limits of Multilateralism ; 3. The UK: the Triumph of Fiscal Realism? ; 4. The United States: the strange survival of (Neo)Liberalism ; 5. Constructing Financial Markets: reforming Over-the-Counter Derivatives in the aftermath of the financial crisis ; 6. Financial Regulation after the Global Financial Crisis: Regionalist Impulses and National Strategies ; 7. Regaining Control: Capital Controls and the Global Financial Crisis ; 8. Institutional Failure and the Global Financial Crisis ; 9. What Happened to the State-influenced Market Economies (SMEs)? France, Italy, and Spain Confront the Crisis as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly ; 10. Social Solidarity in Scandinavia after the Failure of Finance Capitalism ; 11. French Responses to the Global Economic Crisis: the Political Economy of Post-dirigisme and New State Activism ; 12. Pardigm(s) Shifting? Responding to China's Response to the Global Financial Crisis? ; 13. Conclusion

Contributors, from both sides of the Atlantic and clearly experts in their areas, have written informative surveys that surely are worth reading. Recommended.