This book provides a timely warning of the dangers still present and building in the global economic system, whose frailty was exposed by the global financial crisis, and the Eurozone crisis it spawned. The contributors to this volume draw on SPERI's work on the political economy of growth, stagnation, austerity and crisis, and placing each in the context of the wider environmental crisis.

Colin Hay is Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po, France. He is  Affiliate Professor of Political Analysis and Founding Co-Director of SPERI at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is the author of a number of books including Civic Capitalism, The Legacy of Thatcherism, The Failure of Anglo-Liberal Capitalism and The Political Economy of European Welfare Capitalism. He is Co-Editor, alongside Anthony Payne, of the Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy series. Tom Hunt is Policy Research Officer at SPERI, the University of Sheffield, UK. He is Editor of the SPERI Comment blog, edits the SPERI British Political Economy Brief series and the Global Political Economy Brief series. He is the author of several SPERI British Political Economy Briefs.