Iceland and the International Financial Crisis

Höfundur: Eirikur Bergmann (Útgáfa: 0)
Iceland and the International Financial Crisis

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Eirikur Bergmann explains the exceptional case of Iceland's fantastical boom, bust and rapid recovery after the Crash of 2008 and explores the lessons for the wider EU crisis and for over-reaching economies that over-rely on financial markets.

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Útgefandi
Springer Nature
ISBN
9781137332004
Print ISBN
9781137331991
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
0
Höfundar
Eirikur Bergmann
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2014-01-30
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

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  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction Boom, Bust and Recovery
  • The Crash
  • The blame game
  • The Pots and Pans revolution
  • Recovery and new critical order
  • Outline and analysis
  • Part I  Rise and Shine
  • 1  Birth of a Nation A Postcolonical Project
  • The independence struggle
  • The colonial heritage
  • The national myth
  • Equal partner
  • The Vikings
  • Ever lasting struggle
  • Conclusion
  • 2  Coming of Age Economic History
  • Early fragile finanicalization
  • Party of four
  • Rich in fish
  • Emergence of a historic block
  • ITQ and neoliberal modernization
  • Conclusion
  • 3  The Independent State Foreign Relations
  • Three pillars
  • Outside in Europe
  • Challenges
  • Compensating for smallness
  • Icelands sense of sovereignty
  • The discourses on Europe
  • Conclusion
  • Part II  Boom and Bust
  • 4  The Nordic Tiger Imagined Economic Miracle
  • Privatization and deregulation
  • Rival groups of Viking Capitalists
  • Leveraged expansion abroad
  • Procyclical policies
  • Spinning out of control
  • Mother of all shopping sprees
  • Nourishing the superiority complex
  • Conclusion
  • 5  Living on the Edge Hot Air Flaring Up the Economy
  • The 2006 Geyser crisis
  • New funding model
  • Love letters and self-inflation
  • Gathering clouds (early 2008)
  • Falling off the waterfall
  • The Glitnir takedown
  • Conclusion
  • 6  The Crash Collapse of the Cross-border Banks
  • Domino effect
  • The fatal weekend
  • Implementing the master plan
  • God bless Iceland
  • The UK attack
  • Financial devastation
  • Ruined reputation
  • Conclusion
  • Part III  Revolution and Recovery
  • 7  The Pots and Pans Revolution and Defiance Abroad
  • Taking to the streets
  • Adding insult to injury: the Icesave dispute and the IMF
  • God Damn, Fucking Fuck
  • In-com-pe-tent go-vern-ment: an all-Iceland revolution
  • Left-leaning landslide
  • The Icesave dispute heightens
  • Post-crisis discourse
  • Conclusion
  • 8  Rising from the Ruins A Fragile Economic Recovery
  • The IMF emergency programme
  • Bank restructuring
  • Welfare-orientated recovery
  • Production base intact
  • Debt restructuring
  • Rising from the ruins
  • Challenges ahead
  • Conclusion
  • 9  Reconstituting Iceland and the New Critical Order
  • Political accountability
  • Criminal investigation
  • Re-entering international society
  • Challenging the party system
  • Constitutional reform
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusions and Final Remarks
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index