Modern Political Economics - Varoufakis, Yanis (University of Athens, Greece) a Halevi, Joseph (University of Sydney, Australia) a Theocarakis, Nicholas J. (University of Athens, Greece)

In 2008, not only did the financial system collapse, and send the real economy into a tailspin, but it also revealed the great gulf separating economics from a very real capitalism. Modern Political Economics has a single aim: To help readers make sense of how 2008 came about and what the post-2008 world has in store.