Integration, spurious convergence, and financial fragility: a post-Keynesian interpretation of the Spanish crisis

ABSTRACT The Spanish crisis is generally portrayed as resulting from excessive spending by households associated to a housing bubble and/or an excessive welfare spending beyond the economic possibilities of the country. We put forward a different hypothesis. We argue that the Spanish crisis resulted...

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Main Authors: ESTEBAN PÉREZ CALDENTEY, MATÍAS VERNENGO
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editora 34
Series:Brazilian Journal of Political Economy
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31572018000200304&lng=en&tlng=en