The 2008 financial crisis and neoclassical economics
The 2008 global financial crisis was the consequence of the process of financialization, or the creation of massive fictitious financial wealth, that began in the 1980s, and of the hegemony of a reactionary ideology, namely, neoliberalism, based on self-regulated and efficient markets. Although capi...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Editora 34
2010-03-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Political Economy |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31572010000100001 |