Iceland and the International Financial Crisis

In the years leading up to the Crash of 2008, Iceland had been triumphed in world business media as an economic miracle. Its new breed of Viking Capitalism had become rock stars of the global finance driven economy, even while it was testing the foundations of Europe's financial system. Eirikur Bergmann applies Postcolonial analysis to explain the paradigmatic case of Iceland's fantastical boom, bust and rapid recovery after the Crash. His critical approach to the claims of the financialization advocates relates the questions of the national economy and globalisation to current trends in Europe and the World.--

שנה

2014

שפה

English

הוצאה

Palgrave Macmillan

מהדורות

4

עמודים

211

ISBN

9781137331991

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata