Macroeconomics in context /

Table of Contents: “…The financial crisis and the great recession -- Prelude to a crisis -- The housing bubble -- The subprime crisis -- Economic impacts of the crisis -- Unemployment and the vicious recessionary spiral -- The Great Depression and the great recession compared -- Underlying causes of the financial crisis -- Inequality -- Bank size and deregulation -- Misguided corporate incentive structure -- Globalization and long-term economic trends -- Remedies and ideas for averting future crises -- Fiscal and monetary responses -- The Dodd-Frank Bill -- Political economy of the debt -- The balance budge debate -- Imposed austerity : the case of the European Union -- Deficit projections and potential policy responses -- Budgetary reforms : the Simpson-Bowles Plan -- Budgetary reforms : Congressional Budget Office -- Debt and deficits in context -- 17. …”