1. Main and Contributory Causes of the Recent Financial Crisis and Economic Policy Implications / Philip Arestis -- 2. The Emerging Market Economies and the Great Recession / Ahmad Seyf -- 3. Africa and the Great Recession: The Dynamics of Growth Sustainability / Howard Stein -- 4. Arab Countries in Transition in the Aftermath of the Great Recession: The Policy Options / Yiannis Kitromilides -- 5. The Impact of the Great Recession and Policy Responses in Latin America: Was This Time Different? / Luiz Fernando de Paula and Fernando Ferrari Filho -- 6. An Eastern European Perspective on the Recent Financial Crisis and an Examination of Poland's Exceptionalism / Nigel F. B. Allington and John S. L. McCombie -- 7. China Confronts the Great Recession: 'Rebalancing' Neoliberalism, or Else? / Dic Lo -- 8. The Political Economy of Inequality and Boom-Bust Cycles in Turkey: Before and After the Great Recession / Özlem Onaran and Cem Oyvat.