Theme 1: Financial, Economic and Fiscal crisis

Keywords: globalization, neoliberalism, political economy, financialization, credit ranking agencies, overaccumulation, bank bail out, state debt … Events taking place in just a few weeks between October and November 2008 gave us all a wake-up call. The benefits of precepts such as free markets, free trade, financial deregulation and the like, vanished in front of the eyes of thousands of astonished ...