Contents --Introduction -- Riccardo Bellofiore and Giovanna Vertova -- 1. The Great Recession and the Contradictions of Contemporary CapitalismRiccardo Bellofiore -- 2. The Crisis of the Early 21st Century: Marxian PerspectiveGerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy -- 3. Marx, Keynes and Hayek and the Great Recession of 2008Meghnad Desai -- 4. Fictitious Capital in the Context of Global Over-accumulation and Changing International Economic Power RelationshipFrancois Chesnais -- 5. Conventions and DisruptionsChristian Marazzi -- 6. Debt, Class and Asset InflationJan Toporowski -- 7. Speculation, Financial Fragility and Stock-flow ConsistencyJo Michell -- 8. A Structural Monetary Reform to Reduce Global Imbalances: Keynes' Plan Revisited to Avert International Payment DeficitsSergio Rossi -- 9. The True Rules of a Good Management of Public Finance. An Implication of the Fatal Euro-zone Crisis.Alain Parguez -- 10. Growth and Crisis in the Italian EconomyVittorio Valli --11. What's Gender got to do with the Great Recession? The Italian Case.Giovanna Vertova -- 12. Financial and Nuclear Meltdowns: the Fragility of Chain-reaction Critical ProcessesAlessandro Vercelli -- Index.