1st Edition
Which Way Goes Capitalism? In Search of Adequate Policies in a Dramatically Changing World
By Daniel Daianu
Copyright 2009
296 Pages
by
Central European University Press
In this title, a well-known academic economist and former finance minister gives a lucid and well balanced overview of the current financial turbulences that have hit the developed economies. Strongly criticizing the excesses of neoliberal capitalism, Daianu calls for implementing necessary regulatory reforms in the financial sector and for restoration of a proper balance between the functions of... Read more
Foreword, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Return to Common Sense is Needed, Chapter 1.Institutional and Policy Diversity as an Engine of Economic Development Chapter 2. Ethical Lapses of Capitalism: How Serious They Are Chapter 3. Why is this Financial Crisis Occurring—How to Respond to It? Chapter 4. What This Financial Crisis Tells Us Chapter 5. A Strained European Model—Is Eastern Enlargement to Blame? Chapter 6. The Monetary Union: The Decade Ahead. The Case of Non-Member States Chapter 7. The EU Budget Review: Managing Diversity for a Growing EU Chapter 8. A Clash of Capitalism Chapter 9. Epilogue: Keynes Is Back, Appendices, Index
Biography
Daniel Daianu is a professor of economics at the National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA) in Bucharest, and chairman of the Romanian Economic Society. He is a former finance minister of Romania and former Member of the EP. He was a visiting professor at UCLA and University of California, Berkeley.
