Download or read book Financialisation and the Financial and Economic Crises written by Eckhard Hein and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this book provide detailed accounts of the long-term effects of financialisation and cover the main developments leading up to and during the crisis in 11 selected countries: the US, the UK, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Sweden, Italy, France, Estonia, and Turkey. The introductory chapter presents the theoretical framework and synthesizes the main findings of the country studies. Furthermore, the macroeconomic effects of financialisation on the EU as a whole are analysed in the final chapter.