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A World on Fire: Observations and Speculations in a Crottyian Vein

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I offer this article as a small way of honoring my friend, mentor, and role model Jim Crotty, whose intellectual legacy, commitment to engaged scholarship, lived experience, and warmth and generosity continue to influence me profoundly. Here, I offer several observations and speculations on the state of play in the global and US financial systems in a Crottyian vein. These include several 1980s throwbacks—bank failures in the United States; rentier-driven tight monetary policies across the world with attendant negative effects; and, debt distress and the likelihood of a (new) “lost decade†in the Global South. These familiar experiences are unfolding against the backdrop of an interregnum in which a “post-American global financial order†is emerging in an environment marked by “productive and destructive incoherence.†JEL Classification: F02, F33, O23, E44, E58

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  • Ilene Grabel, 2023. "A World on Fire: Observations and Speculations in a Crottyian Vein," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 55(4), pages 707-713, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:55:y:2023:i:4:p:707-713
    DOI: 10.1177/04866134231198217
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    Keywords

    Jim Crotty; bank failures; monetary policies; debt crises; post-American global financial order;
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    JEL classification:

    • F02 - International Economics - - General - - - International Economic Order and Integration
    • F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions
    • O23 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Development
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies

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