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What Caused the Financial Crisis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (371 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812204933
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: What Caused the Financial CrisisDDC classification:
  • 330.973/0931
LOC classification:
  • HB3722 -- .W486 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Capitalism and the Crisis: Bankers, Bonuses, Ideology, and Ignorance -- Part I: The Crisis in Historical Perspective -- Chapter 2. An Accident Waiting to Happen: Securities Regulation and Financial Deregulation -- Chapter 3. Monetary Policy, Credit Extension, and Housing Bubbles, 2008 and 1929 -- Part II: What Went Wrong (and What Didn't)? -- Chapter 4. The Anatomy of a Murder: Who Killed the American Economy? -- Chapter 5. Monetary Policy, Economic Policy, and the Financial Crisis: An Empirical Analysis of What Went Wrong -- Chapter 6. Housing Initiatives and Other Policy Factors -- Chapter 7. How Securitization Concentrated Riskin the Financial Sector -- Chapter 8. A Regulated Meltdown: The Basel Rules and Banks' Leverage -- Chapter 9. The Credit-Rating Agencies and the Subprime Debacle -- Chapter 10. Credit-Default Swaps and the Crisis -- Part III: Economists, Economics, and the Financial Crisis -- Chapter 11. The Crisis of 2008: Lessons for and from Economics -- Chapter 12. The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of the Economics Profession -- Afterword: The Causes of the Financial -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Notes -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Featuring essays by Nobel laureate economists and an afterword by Richard Posner, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the collapse of the global financial sector in 2008. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the nature of modern capitalism and regulation.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Capitalism and the Crisis: Bankers, Bonuses, Ideology, and Ignorance -- Part I: The Crisis in Historical Perspective -- Chapter 2. An Accident Waiting to Happen: Securities Regulation and Financial Deregulation -- Chapter 3. Monetary Policy, Credit Extension, and Housing Bubbles, 2008 and 1929 -- Part II: What Went Wrong (and What Didn't)? -- Chapter 4. The Anatomy of a Murder: Who Killed the American Economy? -- Chapter 5. Monetary Policy, Economic Policy, and the Financial Crisis: An Empirical Analysis of What Went Wrong -- Chapter 6. Housing Initiatives and Other Policy Factors -- Chapter 7. How Securitization Concentrated Riskin the Financial Sector -- Chapter 8. A Regulated Meltdown: The Basel Rules and Banks' Leverage -- Chapter 9. The Credit-Rating Agencies and the Subprime Debacle -- Chapter 10. Credit-Default Swaps and the Crisis -- Part III: Economists, Economics, and the Financial Crisis -- Chapter 11. The Crisis of 2008: Lessons for and from Economics -- Chapter 12. The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of the Economics Profession -- Afterword: The Causes of the Financial -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Notes -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Featuring essays by Nobel laureate economists and an afterword by Richard Posner, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the collapse of the global financial sector in 2008. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the nature of modern capitalism and regulation.

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