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The map and the territory : risk, human nature, and the future of forecasting / Alan Greenspan.
Lippincott Library HC106.84 .G74 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenspan, Alan, 1926-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic forecasting--United States.
- Economic forecasting.
- United States.
- Financial crises--United States.
- Financial crises.
- United States--Economic policy.
- Economic policy.
- Risk.
- Physical Description:
- 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Penguin Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- Explains how the financial crisis has challenged fundamental assumptions about leading economic models, drawing on twenty-first-century technologies and the expertise of behavioral economists to outline new forecasting practices.
- Contents:
- Animal spirits
- The crisis begins, intensifies, and abates
- The roots of crisis
- Stock prices and equity stimulus
- Finance and regulation
- Schooner intelligence and then some
- Uncertainty undermines investment
- Productivity : the ultimate measure of economic success
- Productivity and the age of entitlements
- Culture
- The onset of globalization, income inequality, and the rise of the gini and the crony
- Money and inflation
- Buffers
- The bottom line.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594204814
- 1594204810
- OCLC:
- 837179768
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