Critical and Feminist Perspectives on Financial and Economic Crises

Herausgeber: Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko; Seguino, Stephanie; Heintz, James

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together innovative thinking from heterodox macroeconomists and feminist economists to explore the causes, consequences, and ramifications of economic crises. It takes an innovative approach to analyzing a range of issues, from the subprime mortgage crisis to the gendered effects of austerity to the role of the International Monetary Fund in governing an unstable global economy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Feminist Economics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781138855014
• ISBN-10: 1138855014
• Artikelnr.: 41671377

Autorenporträt

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is Professor of International Affairs at The New School, New York City, USA. She is a development economist interested in human development and capabilities and the broad question of national and international policy strategies. James Heintz is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. He has written on a wide range of economic policy issues, including job creation, global labour standards, the distributive consequences of macroeconomic policies, and human rights. Stephanie Seguino is Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont, USA. Her research explores the relationship between the macroeconomy and intergroup inequality by class, race, and gender. That work includes analyses of the effects of monetary policy and austerity on gender and racial inequality.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. Critical Perspectives on Financial and Economic Crises:
Heterodox Macroeconomics Meets Feminist Economics 2. Global Financial
Governance and Development Finance in the Wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis
3. Austerity Measures in Developing Countries: Public Expenditure Trends
and the Risks to Children and Women 4. Economic Crisis, Gender Equality,
and Policy Responses in Spain and Canada 5. Economic Recession and Recovery
in the UK: What's Gender Got to Do with It? 6. Race, Gender, Power, and the
US Subprime Mortgage and Foreclosure Crisis: A Meso Analysis 7.
Financialization, the Great Recession, and the Stratification of the US
Labour Market 8. Estimating the Impact of the 2008-09 Economic Crisis on
Work Time in Turkey 9. Time Allocation of Married Mothers and Fathers in
Hard Times: The 2007-09 US Recession 10. Impact of the Global Financial
Crisis in Rural China: Gender, Off-farm Employment, and Wages 11. Gender
Dimensions of the Global Economic and Financial Crisis in Central America
and the Dominican Republic