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The cost of capitalism : understanding market mayhem and stabilizing our economic future / Robert J. Barbera.
Lippincott Library HB3722 .B37 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barbera, Robert J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Financial crises.
- Economic stabilization.
- Capitalism.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : McGraw-Hill Companies, [2009]
- Contents:
- Financial markets and monetary policy in perspective
- The markets stoke the boom and bust cycle
- The ABCs of risky finance
- Financial markets as a source of instability
- Free market capitalism: still the superior strategy
- Monetary policy: not the wrong men, the wrong model
- Economic experience: 1985-2002
- How financial instability emerged in the 1980s
- Financial mayhem in Asia: Japan's implosion and the Asian contagion
- Brave-new-world boom goes bust: the 1900s technology bubble
- Emerging realities: 2007-2008
- Greenspan's conundrum fosters the housing bubble
- Bernanke's calamity and the onset of U.S. recession
- Domino defaults, global markets crisis, and end of the great moderation
- Recasting economic theory for the twenty-first century
- Economic orthodoxy on the eve of the crisis
- Minsky and monetary policy
- One practitioner's professional journey
- Global policy risks in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780071628440
- 0071628444
- OCLC:
- 317313923
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