The Aftermath of the Financial Crisis: Continuity and Little Change

Abstract

Academic literature on the global ﬁnancial crisis (GFC) continues unabated, prompted in large part by the lack of any profound changes arising in its aftermath. In addition to the sifting of evidence, researchers are using the opportunity to test theories and apply new meta-theoretical tools. Unfortunately, particularly in the case of the latter, the claims made on their behalf are insufﬁciently supported by the results of their application. The most insightful and revealing of the studies under review here are the most conventional with respect to methodology and theory.

Grant, W. and Wilson, G. K. (eds) (2012) The Consequences of the Global Financial Crisis: The Rhetoric of Reform and Regulation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McKeen-Edwards, H. and Porter, A. (2013) Transnational Financial Associations and the Governance of Global Finance:Assembling Wealth and Power. London: Routledge.

Rethel, L. and Sinclair, T. J. (2012) The Problem with Banks. London: Zed Books.

Thompson, G. F. (2012) The Constitutionalization of the Global Corporate Sphere? Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Keywords

political economy methodology globalisation crisis ﬁnance

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