The Wealth Effect: How the Great Expectations of the Middle Class Have Changed the Politics of Banking Crises

Part I. Banking Crises and the Rise of Great Expectations:

1. Great expectations, banking crises, and democratic politics
2. Great expectations: banking crises, policy responses and politics
3. Household wealth and financialization in the United Kingdom, the United States and Brazil since the nineteenth century
4. The emergence of great expectations in the United Kingdom, the United States and Brazil
Part II. Evolving Policy Responses to and Political Consequences of Banking Crises since the Nineteenth Century:
5. Changing expectations and policy responses to banking crises
6. Banking crises and voters over the long run
Part III. Banking Crises, Policy and Politics in the United Kingdom, the United States and Brazil since the Nineteenth Century:
7. Banking crises in the United Kingdom in an era of low expectations
8. A banking crisis in the United Kingdom in an era of great expectations
9. Banking crises and politics in the United States before 1945
10. The 2007–2009 crisis and its aftermath in the United States
11. Banking crises in Brazil in an era of low expectations
12. Banking crises in Brazil in an era of rising expectations

13. Conclusion.

Jeffrey M. Chwieroth is Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of International Relations, and a Research Associate of the Systemic Risk Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Capital Ideas: The IMF and the Rise of Financial Liberalization (2010). He has published numerous articles on the political economy of international money and finance and on global governance. His research has been supported by grants from the Australian Research Council, the AXA Research Fund, the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Economic and Social Research Council.

Andrew Walter is Professor of International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He has received research grants from the Australian Research Council and the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Canada. He has published numerous articles on the political economy of international money and finance and their governance among and within countries. His books include Governing Finance: East Asia's Adoption of International Standards (2008), Analyzing the Global Political Economy (2009), China, the United States, and Global Order (Cambridge, 2011, with Rosemary Foot), East Asian Capitalism (2012, ed. with Xiaoke Zhang), and Global Financial Governance Confronts the Rising Powers (2016, ed with C. R. Henning).