Mechanisms of financial crises in growth and collapse;Hammurabi,Schumpeter,Perez, and Minsky

This article provides a historical and theoretical overview of the mechanism leading up to financial crises and financial bubbles. It suggests that the potentially explosive growth of the financial sector at the expense of the real economy fed by compound interest has-since before ancient mesopotami...

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Main Author: Erik S.Reinert
Format: Article
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2012