Recent events in the global financial markets and macro economies have served as a strong reminder for a need of a coherent theory of capitalist crisis and analysis. This book helps to fill the gap with well-grounded alternative articulations of the forces which move today's economic dynamics, how they interact and how ideas of foundational figures in economic theory can be used to make sense of the current predicament. The book presents a comprehensive collection of reflections on the origins, dynamics and implications of the interlinked crises of the U.S. and global economies.

Introduction, Nobuharu Yokokawa and Gary Dymski 1. From the Subprime to the Great Earthquake Crisis in Japan, Makotoh Itoh 2. The Global Financial Crisis: The Instability of U.S.-Centered Global Capitalism, Tetsuji Kawamura 3. Financialization and Capitalist Accumulation: A Structural Account of the Crisis of 2007-2009, Costas Lapavitsas 4. The Global Financial Crisis as a World Great Depression: An Analysis Using Marxian Economics, Masayoshi Tatebe 5. The Demise of the Keynesian Regime, Financial Crisis, and Marx's Theory, Shinjiro Hagiwara 6. The 2008 Economic Crisis from the Perspective of Changes in Prices Movements, Akira Matsumoto 7. Cyclical Crisis, Structural Crisis, Systemic Crisis, and Future of Capitalism, Nobuharu Yokokawa 8. Financial Innovations, Growth and Crisis: the Subprime Collapse in Perspective, Robert Boyer 9. The Crisis of 2008 and the Dynamics of Capitalism in Time and Space, Toshio Yamada 10. Neoliberalism and its Crisis, Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy 11. Fiat Money and How to Combat Debt Deflation, Thomas Sekine 12. Can the US Economy Escape the Law of Gravity? A Minsky-Kalecki Approach to the Crisis of Neoliberalism, Gary A. Dymski 13. The Political Economy of Global Imbalances and the Global Financial Crisis, Kang-Kook Lee 14. East Asia's Integration and Structural Shift:The Shift from Newly Industrializing Economies to Potentially Bigger Market Economies under the Global Economy, Hitoshi Hirakawa 15. Financialization, Structural Change, and Employment in the U.S. and Japan, James Heintz 16. Overconsumption, Household Debt, and Dollar-Privilege: The Causes of the US Subprime Crisis, Aki Aneha