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What caused the financial crisis /

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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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Friedman, Jeffrey
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2011]
©2011
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Finance > United States > History > 21st century.
Financial crises > United States > History > 21st century.
Business Management, other.
Business management.
Economic policy.
Finance.
Financial crises.
Social sciences.
Wirtschaft.
BUSINESS &amp > Business History. > Business History. > Business History.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812204933
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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.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: 36 illus.
ISBN: 9780812204933
Index Number: HB3722
CLC: F837.125.9
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Illustrations --
Chapter 1. Capitalism and the Crisis: Bankers, Bonuses, Ideology, and Ignorance /
Chapter 2. An Accident Waiting to Happen: Securities Regulation and Financial Deregulation /
Chapter 3. Monetary Policy, Credit Extension, and Housing Bubbles, 2008 and 1929 /
Chapter 4. The Anatomy of a Murder: Who Killed America s 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 Risk in 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 /
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 Crisis /
Abbreviations and Acronyms --
Notes --
References --
Contributors --
Index --
Acknowledgments.

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