 The 2008–2009 Financial Crisis in Historical ContextA chapter in Global Financial Crisis and Its Ramifications on Capital Markets, 2017, pp 3-17 from Springer Abstract: Abstract The 2008–2009 financial crisis was the largest since Great Depression of the 1930s. Several reasons were asserted on why such a massive crisis happened in the first place. However, most of the explanations put forth were about proximate causes of the crisis and very little attention was given to the underlying and fundamental causes of it. The causes of the global financial crisis were, ostensibly, the formation of a housing bubble and ensuing subprime mortgage crisis in the US economy. However, the true story of the crisis is much more complicated than this. Actually, the fundamental causes, which stemmed from systemic problems in the global economy, paved the way for economic instabilities throughout the world and numerous financial crises occurred from 1980s on. These fundamental causes include (a) failure of transforming economies from extensive-production to intensive-production, (b) the rise of the neoliberalism, (c) ensuing financialization of the world economy and (d) global instabilities witnessed in the neoliberal era. Keywords: Monetary Policy; Financial Crisis; House Price; Real Exchange Rate; Global Financial Crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:conchp:978-3-319-47021-4_1 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47021-4_1 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Contributions to Economics from Springer |
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