Crisis Without End? The Unravelling of Western Prosperity

by Gamble, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780230367074
• ISBN10: 0230367070
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-07-25
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The 2008 crash was no ordinary crisis, but the harbinger of a much deeper convulsion. This major re-assessment shows how it was initially contained but that the more fundamental challenges to western leadership, democracy and prosperity, unless addressed, will preclude sustained recovery and pave the way for recurrent crises.

Author Biography

Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge, UK. His many books include The Spectre at the Feast, Britain in Decline and The Free Economy and the Strong State , also published by Palgrave Macmillan. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Social Sciences and was awarded the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies by the UK Political Studies Association in 2005.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1: The new stagflation
2: Understanding crisis
3: The resilience of the governing order
4: A crisis of the West?
5: The governance conundrum
6: The growth conundrum
7: The fiscal conundrum
8: Paths to the future