Many books have explored the causes of the global financial crisis, but relatively few its consequences. The book brings together leading authors from the UK and the US to discuss both how particular countries have responded in different ways to the crisis, and also examine attempts to reform global economic governance and financial regulation.

• 1: Graham Wilson and Wyn Grant: Introduction


• 2: Richard Higgott: The Theory and Practice of Global Economic Governance in the Early 21st Century: the Limits of Multilateralism


• 3: Andrew Gamble: The UK: the Triumph of Fiscal Realism?


• 4: Graham Wilson: The United States: the strange survival of (Neo)Liberalism


• 5: Glenn Morgan: Constructing Financial Markets: reforming Over-the-Counter Derivatives in the aftermath of the financial crisis


• 6: William W. Grimes: Financial Regulation after the Global Financial Crisis: Regionalist Impulses and National Strategies


• 7: Kevin Gallagher: Regaining Control: Capital Controls and the Global Financial Crisis


• 8: Timothy J. Sinclair: Institutional Failure and the Global Financial Crisis


• 9: Vivien A. Schmidt: What Happened to the State-influenced Market Economies (SMEs)? France, Italy, and Spain Confront the Crisis as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly


• 10: Cathie Jo Martin: Social Solidarity in Scandinavia after the Failure of Finance Capitalism


• 11: Ben Clift: French Responses to the Global Economic Crisis: the Political Economy of Post-dirigisme and New State Activism


• 12: Shaun Breslin: Pardigm(s) Shifting? Responding to China's Response to the Global Financial Crisis?


• 13: Graham Wilson and Wyn Grant: Conclusion

Wyn Grant is Professor of Politics at the University of Warwick and vice-president for Europe and Africa of the International Political Science Association. He has written extensively on economic policy, government-business relations, pressure groups, and agricultural and environmental policy.
Graham Wilson is Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Boston University. He previously taught at the Universities of Wisconsin-Madison and Essex.