Some contradictions in 'mainstream' interpretations of the crisis and new perspectives in the critique of economic theory and policy / Emiliano Brancaccio -- Economy and economics : the twin crises / Alessandro Vercelli -- The great recession and the third crisis in economic theory / Riccardo Bellofiore, Joseph Halevi -- As if nothing were going to happen : a search in vain for warnings about the current crisis in economic journals with the highest impact factors / Andrea Imperia, Vincenzo Maffeo -- Changes in income distribution, financial disorder and crisis / Aldo Barba, Massimo Pivetti -- Income distribution and borrowing : tracking the US economy with a 'New Cambridge' model / Gennaro Zezza -- Changes in functional income distribution in Italy and Europe / Antonella Stirati -- Low wages, consumer credit and the crisis : a monetary theory of production approach / Guglielmo Forges Davanzati, Riccardo Realfonzo -- Back to the future? : The tendency of the (maximum) rate of profit to fall : empirical evidence and theory / Stefano Perri -- The international circuit of key currencies and the global crisis : is there scope for reform? / Lilia Costabile -- Globalization and the great crisis / Ernesto Screpanti -- The global crisis in low- and middle-income countries : how the IMF responded / Andrea F. Presbitero, Alberto Zazzaro -- Notes on Europe, German mercantilism and the current crisis / Sergio Cesaratto -- Privatization, reproduction and crisis : the case of utilities / Bruno Bosco -- Property rights in the knowledge economy : an explanation of the crisis / Ugo Pagano, Maria Alessandra Rossi -- Employment and income distribution from a classical-Keynesian point of view : some tools to ground a normative analysis / Enrico Bellino.