God and the Financial Crisis : Essays on Faith / edited by Gary D. Badcock.

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Badcock, Gary D

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TextPublication details: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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1443888370
9781443888370

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: God and the Financial Crisis : Essays on Faith, Economics, and Politics in the Wake of the Great Recession.DDC classification:

174.4 23

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Summary: A fundamental belief in personal liberty and in the ability of free markets to realise the good lies at the heart of the neoliberal economic orthodoxy that has now shaped public policy for a generation. Confidence in orthodox economics has, however, been badly shaken by the financial crisis of 2008 and, in the years following, by the effects of the Great Recession. The era of casino banking was not only an era of de-industrialisation and under-employment, but also of iniquitous tax avoidance schemes, and of grotesquely inflated levels of social inequality. Such factors, we now realise, have re.

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A fundamental belief in personal liberty and in the ability of free markets to realise the good lies at the heart of the neoliberal economic orthodoxy that has now shaped public policy for a generation. Confidence in orthodox economics has, however, been badly shaken by the financial crisis of 2008 and, in the years following, by the effects of the Great Recession. The era of casino banking was not only an era of de-industrialisation and under-employment, but also of iniquitous tax avoidance schemes, and of grotesquely inflated levels of social inequality. Such factors, we now realise, have re.

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