Fábrica de Louça de Miragaia

Chapter 8 uses original research and media accounts to examine how the neoliberal project diffuses into public and private institutions through networks of education, employment, a...

This chapter begins with a micro-history of the Great Crash of 2007–8. It describes the instruments, transactions, size, and growth of the shadow banking system in the years before...

Chapter 6 locates historically the doctrine and practice of central bank independence. It uses the illustrious career of Alan Greenspan, former Chair of the US Federal Reserve to i...

Chapter 12 provides a look at China, which has not been included in our analysis of largely developed economies. Chinese growth has been extraordinary with stunning effects, largel...