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Global Economic and Financial Crisis









  
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March 28, 2009

[EDITORIALS]


Which Way Now?


The crisis that the world is now reeling under is also an opportunity to overhaul the system.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



[AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE]


Steering Out of the Crisis

 Robert Wade

The global financial and economic crisis is of such magnitude that 2008 will probably be looked back upon as a turning point equivalent to 1945, 1971 and 1989  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



The Economic Crisis and Contemporary Capitalism

 Prabhat Patnaik

A democratic agenda for coming out of the recession must have at least five elements: first, the nationalisation of financial institutions in the leading capitalist countries where they have basically become insolvent; second, controls on cross borde  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



[STRUCTURAL CAUSES]


Understanding the Financial Crisis

 Amit Bhaduri

This paper attempts to understand the nature of the current financial crisis by identifying the main characteristics of the system that became vulnerable to collapse due to falling asset prices  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



[REFORMING BANKING AND FINANCE]


The World Crisis: Reforms to Prevent a Recurrence

 Arvind Subramanian , John Williamson

The current financial crisis started in the financial sector of what was thought of as the country with the most sophisticated financial system, and that has spread almost universally and with startling rapidity by virtue of either financial or trade  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



Causes, Cures and Myths

 Avinash D Persaud

Our sights must be set on moderating the recurring cycle of financial crises and our solutions must go beyond the instruments, institutions or individuals of the day  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



Must Banks Be Publicly Owned?

 C P Chandrasekhar

Even as analysts and policymakers in the United States and Europe are debating whether nationalisation is the best option to deal with the crisis in the banking system, governments have already opted to hold a majority of ordinary shares in the expan  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



The First Network Crisis of the 21st Century: A Regulatory Post-Mortem

 Andrew Sheng

The current financial crisis should be viewed as a network crisis, because due to a whole series of deregulation measures, financial reforms and technological and financial innovations, the world has become closely networked into a global market, wit  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



[THE CRISIS AND INDIA]


India amidst the Global Crisis

 Mihir Rakshit

Contrary to popular belief, there were palpable signs of the Indian economy losing steam long before the outbreak of the global crisis  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



The Impact of the Crisis on the Indian Economy

 T T Ram Mohan

The effects of the global financial crisis have been more severe than initially forecast. The turning point was the decision in September 2008 to let Lehman Brothers fail, an event that had a series of ruinous cascading effects  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



The Fate of India Unincorporated

 Dilip M Nachane

While evaluating the Indian policy responses to the global crisis, this article focuses on the likely extent of the spread of the crisis to India and how it will affect the domestic economy  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



[STRUCTURAL CAUSES]


Profound Structural Flaws in the US Financial System That Helped Cause the Financial Crisis

 James Crotty

We are now in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. This crisis is the latest phase of the evolution of financial markets under the radical financial deregulation process that began in the late 1970s  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



[LEARNING FROM THE PAST]


Anatomy of the Financial Crisis: Between Keynes and Schumpeter

 Pulin B Nayak

It is instructive to see how the issue of business cycles was looked upon by John Maynard Keynes and Joseph Schumpeter, each of whom wrote masterly tracts on the subject in the 1930s  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



When the Facts Change: How Can the Financial Crisis Change Minds?

 Arjun jayadev , Anush Kapadia

This essay argues that pragmatism as a temporary prop to stabilise the crumbling financial system is distinct from pragmatism as a governing ethic. The emerging common sense worldwide and in India aims to be the latter  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



[IMPACT ON LABOUR]


A Crisis of Distribution

 Ozlem Onaran

This essay examines the consequences of the global economic and financial crisis for income distribution  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



The World Crisis, Capital and Labour: The 1930s and Today

 Dan La Botz

Almost nowhere are the labour movement and the left prepared to respond to the world economic crisis even as the latter deepens  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



[EDITORIALS]


Maharashtra: Fighting Fatigue


The two main alliances are both fighting fatigue; the Congress-NCP group may be just ahead at the polls.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



[COMMENTARY]


Rethinking the Pasmanda Movement

 Khalid Anis Ansari

The century-old Pasmanda Movement, which rejects the notion of a monolithic Muslim identity, received a new lease of life in the 1990s with the advent of the Mandal reservations  [Abstract]  [Full Article]



UGC Proposal: The Academician’s Nightmare

 Geetha Venkataraman

The draft University Grants Commission proposals for promotions are guaranteed to encourage mediocrity and penalise high quality intellectual effort as academicians race to collect “points” to climb up the academic ladder.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]





























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