Financial whirlpools : a systems story of the great global recession / Karen L. Higgins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Higgins, Karen.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

System theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxviii, 360 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Systems story of the great global recession

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Academic Press, 2013.

Oxford : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

How do economists reconcile their expertise with their failures to predict and manage the 2008 financial crisis? This book goes a long way toward an answer by using systems theory to reveal the complex interdependence of factors and forces behind the crisis. In her fully integrated view of the economy, how it works, and how the economic crisis burst, Karen Higgins combines human psychology, cultural values, and belief formation with descriptions of the ways banks and markets succeed and fail. In each chapter she introduces themes from financial crisis literature and brings a systems-theory

Contents:

pt. I. Foundations

pt. II. The yin : human behaviors

pt. III. The yang : economic mechanisms

pt. IV. Yin and yang : integration.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781299443129

1299443125

9780124059214

012405921X

OCLC:

835227523