Machine generated contents note: pt. I The crisis of economic theory -- 1.Some contradictions in `mainstream' interpretations of the crisis and new perspectives in the critique of economic theory and policy / Emiliano Brancaccio -- 2.Economy and economics: the twin crises / Alessandro Vercelli -- 3.The great recession and the third crisis in economic theory / Joseph Halevi -- 4.As if nothing were going to happen: a search in vain for warnings about the current crisis in economic journals with the highest impact factors / Vincenzo Maffeo -- pt. II Labour, distribution and profit trends -- 5.Changes in income distribution, financial disorder and crisis / Massimo Pivetti -- 6.Income distribution and borrowing: tracking the US economy with a `New Cambridge9 model / Gennaro Zezza -- 7.Changes in functional income distribution in Italy and Europe / Antonella Stiratt -- 8.Low wages, consumer credit and the crisis: a monetary theory of production approach / Riccardo Realfonzo --

Contents note continued: 9.Back to the future? The tendency of the (maximum) rate of profit to fall: empirical evidence and theory / Stefano Perri -- pt. III International economic relations -- 10.The international circuit of key currencies and the global crisis: is there scope for reform? / Lilia Costabile -- 11.Globalization and the great crisis / Ernesto Screpanti -- 12.The global crisis in low-and middle-income countries: how the IMF responded / Alberto Zazzaro -- 13.Notes on Europe, German mercantilism and the current crisis / Sergio Cesaratto -- pt. IV The theory of economic policy -- 14.Privatization, reproduction and crisis: the case of utilities / Bruno Bosco -- 15.Property rights in the knowledge economy: an explanation of the crisis / Maria Alessandra Rossi -- 16.Employment and income distribution from a classical-Keynesian point of view: some tools to ground a normative analysis / Enrico Bellino.