Engineering the financial crisis:systemic risk and the failure of regulation

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Friedman Jeffrey 1959-
Group Author: Kraus Wladimir
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia
Publication Dates: c2011.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Carrier Form: x, 212 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780812243574 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812243579 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Index Number: F831
CLC: F831.59
Call Number: F831.59/F911
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-200) and index.
Bonuses, irrationality, and too bigness : the conventional wisdom about the financial crisis and its theoretical implications -- Capital adequacy regulations and the financial crisis : bankers' and regulators' errors -- The interaction of regulations and the great recession : fetishizing market prices -- Capitalism and regulation : ignorance, heterogeneity, and systemic risk.