Machine generated contents note: pt. I The financial side: the burden of debt and the loss of confidence -- 1.Finance-dominated capitalism, re-distribution and the financial and economic crises: a European perspective / Eckhard Hein -- 2.The world in balance sheet recession: causes, cures and politics / Richard C. Koo -- 3.All lucky breaks come to an end: the shortcomings of macroeconomic models following the financial crisis and the contribution of behavioural economics to the reconfiguration of macroeconomics / Maureen Pike -- 4.The debt trap / Oscar Dejuan -- pt. II The balance of payments constraint: trade deficits as a source of risky debt -- 5.Controversial and novel features of the Eurozone crisis as a balance of payment crisis / Sergio Cesaratto -- 6.Unhappy families are all alike: Minskyan cycles, Kaldorian growth, and the Eurozone peripheral crises / Alberto Bagnai --

Contents note continued: 7.The adjustment of current account imbalances within the European Monetary Union since the beginning of the Great Recession: some strengths and many weaknesses / Jorge Uxo -- 8.The effects of the great recession of 2008 on the neo-Keynesian development experiences: the cases of Argentina and Brazil / Alejandro Fiorito -- pt. III The real side of the economy: the problem of effective demand and the failure of austerity policies -- 9.Net private savings in relation to the government's financial balance: some basic principles of macroeconomics disregarded by the European Union's economic policy makers / Leon Podkaminer -- 10.Business investment, growth and crisis / Oscar Dejuan -- 11.Does the effectiveness of fiscal stimuius depend on economic context? / Steven M. Fazzari -- 12.Spain during the Great Recession: teetering on the brink of collapse / Fernando Bermejo.