From the subprime to the great earthquake crisis in Japan / Makotoh Itoh -- The global financial crisis : the instability of U.S.-centered global capitalism / Tetsuji Kawamura -- Financialization and capitalist accumulation : a structural account of the crisis of 2007-2009 / Costas Lapavitsas -- The global financial crisis as a world great depression : an analysis using Marxian economics / Masayoshi Tatebe -- The demise of the Keynesian regime, financial crisis, and Marx's theory / Shinjiro Hagiwara -- The 2008 economic crisis from the perspective of changes in prices movements / Akira Matsumoto -- Cyclical crisis, structural crisis, systemic crisis, and future of capitalism / Nobuharu Yokokawa -- Financial innovations, growth and crisis : the subprime collapse in perspective / Robert Boyer -- The crisis of 2008 and the dynamics of capitalism in time and space / Toshio Yamada -- Neoliberalism and its crisis / Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy -- Fiat money and how to combat debt deflation / Thomas Sekine -- Can the U.S. economy escape the law of gravity? : a Minsky-Kalecki approach to the crisis of neoliberalism / Gary A. Dymski -- The political economy of global imbalances and the global financial crisis / Kang-Kook Lee -- East Asia's integration and structural shift :the shift from newly industrializing economies to potentially bigger market economies under the global economy / Hitoshi Hirakawa -- Financialization, structural change, and employment in the U.S. and Japan / James Heintz -- Overconsumption, household debt, and dollar-privilege : the causes of the US subprime crisis / Aki Aneha.