The Coming Crisis

This book provides a timely warning of the dangers still present and building in the global economic system, whose frailty was exposed by the global financial crisis, and the Eurozone crisis it spawned. The contributors to this volume draw on SPERI's work on the political economy of growth, stagnation, austerity and crisis, and placing each in the context of the wider environmental crisis.

A collection of scholars and commentators closely associated with SPERI, each with international perspective on risk Each chapter is based on a much shorter blog post originally published as part of SPERI's Coming Crisis series Current political and economic prospects are assessed, and the scenarios on offer are judged according to which seem most plausible Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Auteur
Colin Hay is Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po, France. He is Affiliate Professor of Political Analysis and Founding Co-Director of SPERI at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is the author of a number of books including Civic Capitalism, The Legacy of Thatcherism, The Failure of Anglo-Liberal Capitalism and The Political Economy of European Welfare Capitalism. He is Co-Editor, alongside Anthony Payne, of the Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy series.
Tom Hunt is Policy Research Officer at SPERI, the University of Sheffield, UK. He is Editor of the SPERI Comment blog, edits the SPERI British Political Economy Brief series and the Global Political Economy Brief series. He is the author of several SPERI British Political Economy Briefs.

Contenu
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Coming Crisis, the Gathering Storm.- Chapter 2. We are Not in Kansas Anymore: Economic and Political Shocks.- Chapter 3. On 'The Other Crisis': Diagnosing the Socio-Ecological Crisis.- Chapter 4. Stagflation and the Shackles of Market Discipline.- Chapter 5. Can Global Governance Prevent the Coming Crisis?.- Chapter 6. The Coming and Current Crisis of Indecent Work.- Chapter 7. The Coming Crisis of Planetary Instability.- Chapter 8. The European Migrant Crisis and the Future of the European Project.- Chapter 9. The Paradox of Monetary Credibility.- Chapter 10. Enduring Imbalances in the Eurozone.- Chapter 11. Systemic Stabilization and a New Social Contract.- Chapter 12. Secular Stagnation: The New Normal for the UK?.- Chapter 13. China Crisis?.- Chapter 14. Conclusion: The Crisis gets Political.