Business as Usual? Responding to the GFC on the Gold Coast
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Burton, Paul
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2009
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The nature and causes of the current global crisis continue to generate substantial debate, including over whether it is primarily a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a crisis of political legitimacy or some combination of all. While the roots of the crisis may well lie in the rapid expansion of an unsustainable financial regime it clearly became a more wide ranging economic crisis, posing substantial challenges to the financial rectitude of many governments and to the legitimacy of at least some superficial aspects of the capitalist mode of production.The nature and causes of the current global crisis continue to generate substantial debate, including over whether it is primarily a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a crisis of political legitimacy or some combination of all. While the roots of the crisis may well lie in the rapid expansion of an unsustainable financial regime it clearly became a more wide ranging economic crisis, posing substantial challenges to the financial rectitude of many governments and to the legitimacy of at least some superficial aspects of the capitalist mode of production.
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Journal Title
Journal of Australian Political Economy
Volume
64
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© The Author(s) 2009 .The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this journal please refer to the journal's website or contact the author.
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Built environment and design
Economics
Human society
Political science not elsewhere classified