The Inexorable Evolution of Financialisation: Financial Crises in Emerging

Since the 2007 financial crisis, discussion on issues related to the size, spread and frequency of financial crises has captivated a wide variety of audiences. Why has the world economy experienced such a marked increase in financial transactions and private and public indebtedness since the 1980s? How have middle-income developing countries suddenly become a part of this dynamic? And, most importantly, how has the topic of financial crises been featured in households' daily discussions in both developed and developing parts of the world? Domna Michailidou addresses the questions above through exploring the inexorable evolution of financialisation into financial crisis through the examination of three middle-income countries: Mexico, Brazil and South Korea. Concentrating on emerging economies, and especially choosing three very different economies that all experienced financial crises in the 1990s, this book explores what lessons can be learnt regarding financial fragility, volatility and failure in the wake of capital market liberalisation.

Domna M. Michailidou

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Foreword, by G. C. Harcourt
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction. Financial Crises: An inter-temporal, inter-national and endogenous capitalist problem
2. A Keynesian and post-Keynesian theoretical brief: Selected concepts
3. Post 1980 global liquidity data: Exponential flows
4. Supply-push: The Western induced endogenous generation and proliferation of liquidity
5. Demand-pull: The internally induced attractiveness of emerging markets¿
6. Mexico: The laissez faire paragon gone wrong¿
7. Brazil: The anti-Mexican public debt failure
8. South Korea: The private debt story¿
9. Deregulation and volatility: Where the three economies meet
10. An endogenous conclusion
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