Economic policy and the financial crisis / edited by Lukasz Mamica and Pasquale Tridico.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Bridges to Babylon: critical economic policy -- from Keynesian macroeconomics to evolutionary macroeconomic simulation models / Lukasz Mamica / Pasquale Tridico -- 2. Why did some countries perform bettextlian others during the current crisis? / Hardy Hanappi -- 3. Aiding economic recovery after the financial crisis / Pasquale Tridico -- 4. Could more flexibility of labour markets help to resume growth? Lessons of an amended Kaleckian model / Malcolm Sawyer -- 5. Institutions and youth labour markets in Europe during the crisis / Amitava Krishna Dutt / Sastien Charles / Dany Lang -- 6. Financial regulations for minimizing economic and social crises: an evolutionary developmental analysis reckoning with unequally rational individuals / Niall O'Higgins -- 7. 'Liquidity' in light of the shadow banking system: lessons from the two crises / Pavel Pelikan

8. Financial instability and functional finance: a Lerner-Minsky perspective / Anastasia Nesvetailova -- 9. Fiscal consolidation and sovereign debt risk in balance-sheet recessions: an agent-based approach / Faruk ✹gen -- 10. Leading factors for catching-up by developing economies: conclusions from the time of crisis / Marco Raberto / Silvano Cincotti / Andrea Teglio -- 11. Added value of design as a factor of firms' competitiveness in times of crises / Tomasz Geodecki -- 12. The decent work basic-relations-fairness approach in a context of crisis in Italy / Lukasz Mamica -- 13. The cooperative firm: a non-capitalist model for the Occupy Movement / Antonella Mennella / Martina Lavagnini -- 14. Active employment policy in the EU and in Poland: a Gordian knot or inertia enchanted in words? / Anna Greenwood / Andrea Bernardi.