This volume brings together innovative thinking from heterodox macroeconomists and feminist economists to explore the causes, consequences, and ramifications of economic crises. It takes an innovative approach to analyzing a range of issues, from the subprime mortgage crisis to the gendered effects of austerity to the role of the International Monetary Fund in governing an unstable global economy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Feminist Economics.

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is Professor of International Affairs at The New School, New York City, USA. She is a development economist interested in human development and capabilities and the broad question of national and international policy strategies.

James Heintz is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. He has written on a wide range of economic policy issues, including job creation, global labour standards, the distributive consequences of macroeconomic policies, and human rights.

Stephanie Seguino is Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont, USA. Her research explores the relationship between the macroeconomy and intergroup inequality by class, race, and gender. That work includes analyses of the effects of monetary policy and austerity on gender and racial inequality.

Foreword 1. Critical Perspectives on Financial and Economic Crises: Heterodox Macroeconomics Meets Feminist Economics 2. Global Financial Governance and Development Finance in the Wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis 3. Austerity Measures in Developing Countries: Public Expenditure Trends and the Risks to Children and Women 4. Economic Crisis, Gender Equality, and Policy Responses in Spain and Canada 5. Economic Recession and Recovery in the UK: What's Gender Got to Do with It? 6. Race, Gender, Power, and the US Subprime Mortgage and Foreclosure Crisis: A Meso Analysis 7. Financialization, the Great Recession, and the Stratification of the US Labour Market 8. Estimating the Impact of the 2008-09 Economic Crisis on Work Time in Turkey 9. Time Allocation of Married Mothers and Fathers in Hard Times: The 2007-09 US Recession 10. Impact of the Global Financial Crisis in Rural China: Gender, Off-farm Employment, and Wages 11. Gender Dimensions of the Global Economic and Financial Crisis in Central America and the Dominican Republic