An Assessment of the Global Impact of the Financial Crisis

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About the Author PHILIP ARESTIS Cambridge Centre for Economics and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK; Professor of Economics, Department of Applied Economics V, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain; Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Utah, US; Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute, New York, US; Visiting Professor, Leeds Business School, University of Leeds, UK; Professorial Research Associate, Department of Finance and Management Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK; and current holder of the British Hispanic Foundation 'Queen Victoria Eugenia' British Hispanic Chair of Doctoral Studies. He is Chief Academic Adviser to the UK Government Economic Service (GES) on Professional Developments in Economics. He has published as sole author or editor, as well as co-author and co-editor, a number of books, contributed in the form of invited chapters to numerous books, produced research reports for research institutes, and has published widely in academic journals.  ROGÉRIO SOBREIRA Associate Professor of Economics and Finance, Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration at Getulio Vargas Foundation and CNPq Researcher. He has published several articles in academic journals and invited chapters mainly on banking regulation, banking firm, investment financing and public debt management. He co-edited five books, all in Portuguese: *Financial and Banking Regulation* (Atlas), *Development and the Building of a Nation – Economic Policy* (FGV), *Development and the Building of a Nation – Public Policy* (FGV), *Fiscal Adjustment: The Case of Selected Countries* (FGV) and *Monetary Policy, Central Banks and Inflation Targeting* (FGV). He is member of the Brazilian Keynesian Association. JOSÉ LUIS OREIRO Associate Professor of Economics at University of Brasilia (UnB), Level I Researcher at National Scientific Council (CNPq/Brazil), Director of the Brazilian Keynesian Association (AKB) and Member of the Editorial Board of Brazilian Journal of Political Economy (REP). He has published more than 60 articles in academic journals in Brazil and other countries, 3 books as editor and contributed in the form of invited chapters to many other books. According to REPEC, he belongs to top 10% of academic economists in Brazil.