Issues in Finance: Credit, Crises and Policies presents a collection of surveys on key issues surrounding the relationship between credit, finance, and the macro-economy that are linked to the recent global financial crisis.

• Presents a timely collection of surveys that shed light on the recent financial crisis
• Offers insights for economists in government, business, and finance
• Shows how the mainstream economics literature was not blind to the potential problems of the financial framework and its interplay with the macro-economy

Stuart Sayer is Professor of Economics Education, University of Edinburgh, Executive Director of the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE), and Editor of the Journal of Economic Surveys. His research is in macroeconomic and monetary theory and policy, political economy, economic policy-making, and climate change economics.