The Macroeconomics of Finance-Dominated Capitalism and its Crisis

Eckhard Hein examines the causes and consequences of financialisation. His book is economics as it should always be: it combines reflections, data gathering, empirical analysis, theoretical formalization, and policy recommendations. Hein goes beyond the exuberant behaviour of the banking industry to analyse the global financial crisis and the eurozone crisis, showing, through various variants of a Kaleckian growth model, the macroeconomic consequences of the rising dominance of finance over modern capitalism during the last three decades. -- Marc Lavoie, University of Ottawa, Canada The rise to dominance of finance in the past three decades has had many profound effects on economic performance. In this book Eckhard Hein provides us with detailed, well-grounded and highly insightful analyses of the macroeconomic impacts on investment, employment, global imbalances, income distribution and much more. This is 'must read' for those wanting to comprehend the macroeconomics of the era of financialization, and for those seeking macro-economic policies to address the financial crisis and bring economic prosperity. -- Malcolm Sawyer, University of Leeds, UK

Eckhard Hein, Professor of Economics, Institute for International Political Economy, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany

Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Finance-dominated Capitalism and Re-distribution of Income 3. Finance-dominated Capitalism, Capital Accumulation and Macroeconomic Regimes 4. Finance-dominated Capitalism and Long-run Productivity Growth 5. Finance-dominated Capitalism, Consumption, Household Debt and Instability 6. Finance-dominated Capitalism, Global Imbalances and Crisis 7. Requirements for Income-led Recovery and a Global Keynesian New Deal 8. The European Financial and Economic Crisis: Alternative Solutions from a Post-Keynesian Perspective 9. Summary and Conclusions References Index