Europe in Crisis

PART I: EU NEOLIBERALISM: POLITICAL ISSUES, CRITICISM, AND ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES. 1. Limits of Policy Intervention in a World of Neoliberal Mechanism Designs: Paradoxes of the Global Crisis; Gary A. Dymski 2. A Post Keynesian Critique of Schwabian Housewife Logic; John King 3. Euroland in Crisis as the Global Meltdown Picks up Speed; Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, L. Randall Wray 4. Addressing the Rationality of 'Irrational' European Responses to the Crisis: A Political Economy of the Euro Area and the Need for a Progressive Alternative; Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, John G. Milios, Spyros Lapatsioras 5. The Developmental State Alternative for the EU; Nikolaos Karagiannis and Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi PART II: ECONOMIC POLICIES FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH AND PROSPERITY IN THE EU 6. The Eurozone Needs a Complete Make-over of Its Fiscal Policies; Philip Arestis, Malcolm C. Sawyer 7. The Crisis of Finance-Dominated Capitalism in the Euro Area, Deficiencies in the Economic Policy Architecture, and Deflationary Stagnation Policies; Eckhard Hein 8. The Euro-area Crisis: Structural Origins and Possible Exit Strategies; Sergio Rossi 9. EU Regional and Industrial Policies, Disparities, and Alternative Developmental State Strategies; Joanna Bens, Nikolaos Karagiannis, Abdelaziz Testas 10. Complementary Currencies, Communities, Cooperation: The Local Job Guarantee in the Eurozone; Mathew Forstater PART III: THE EU NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE AND COUNTRY-STUDIES 11. Globalisation and Capital Mobility: The Impact on the European Union; Alexander G. Kondeas 12. The Crisis of the Core Seen Through the Eyes of the Periphery: A Schelling Model of the Global-South Megacity and the European Crisis; Gary A. Dymski 13. Dead Economic Dogmas Trump Recovery: The Continuing Crisis in the Eurozone Periphery; C. J. Polychroniou 14. The Economic Crisis in Spain: Mistakes in the Management of the Economic Policy; Jesus Ferreiro and Carmen Gomez 15. The Battle against the Shadow Economy as an Exit from the Greek