Overview

All Fall Down traces the ways in which changes in financial structure and regulation eroded monetary control and led to historically high levels of debt relative to GDP in both developed and emerging economies.

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Author:   Jane D’Arista
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.414kg
ISBN:  

9781789907759

ISBN 10:   1789907756
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 August 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Contents: 1. Introduction and Summary Part I: The Unraveling of the 1930s-Era Framework 2. The Euro Market Erodes US Financial Structure 3. Commercial Paper Guarantees and the Emergence of a Parallel Banking System 4. ERISA Moves Savings into Securities Markets Part II: Deregulation and Financial Innovation Create the Context for Crisis 5. An Overview of Financial Restructuring and its Consequences 6. Securitization 7. Weaving the Web of Interconnectedness 8. Opaque Markets and Opaque Balance Sheets 9. Growing Concentration Leads to ""Too Big to Fail"" 10. Regulating the Post-Crisis System 11. Mending the Financial Safety Net for Savers Part III: The Advent of Globalization 12. Dollar Hegemony 13. Foreign Exchange Reserves 14. An Overview of Developments in Global Financial Markets in the 1990s Part IV: Building Toward Crisis in the Global Economy 15. Concerns and Warnings 16. Crises in the Periphery of the Global System 17. Liquidity Expansion in the Period Before the Crisis Part V: Debt and the Collapse of Monetary Control 18. The Failure to Halt the Emergence and Growth of the Debt Bubble 19. Rising Imbalances in Credit Flows 20. Mounting Risks of the Continuing Debt Bubble in the New Millennium 21. How Eroding Monetary Tools Facilitated Debt Creation 22. Monetary Tools: What They Are and How They Function 23. The Inability of Capital Requirements to Prevent or Moderate Financial Crises 24. How Crisis Reshaped the Monetary Toolkit Part VI: An Agenda for Monetary Reform 25. Introducing a Systemic Approach 26. Creating a System-wide Asset-based Reserve System 27. Implementing Policy Under the Current and Proposed Systems 28. Implications of the Proposed System for the Conduct of Policy Part VII: Reforming the Privatized International Monetary System 29. Can Special Drawing Rights Replace the Dollar and Other National Currencies as a Reserve Asset? 30. Restructuring Flows of Private International Investment into Emerging and Developing Economies 31. Reforming the International Payments System Part VIII: Conclusion 32. Building Toward Crisis in the Global Economy — Again Bibliography Index"

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'This book provides a comprehensive assessment of how the monetary and financial system was transformed in the US during the last 50 years.' -- Goekcer OEzgur, Review of Keynesian Economics

Author Information

Jane D’Arista, Research Associate, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US

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