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Stewards of the market : how the Federal Reserve made sense of the Financial Crisis / Mitchel Y. Abolafia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abolafia, Mitchel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Federal Open Market Committee.
- United States.
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- United States--Economic conditions--2001-2009.
- Economic conditions.
- United States--Economic policy--2001-2009.
- Economic policy.
- United States--Economic policy--2009-.
- Economic history.
- Physical Description:
- 215 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Mitchel Abolafia goes behind the scenes with the Federal Reserve's powerful Open Market Committee as it responded to the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Relying on verbatim transcripts of closed meetings, Abolafia shows how assumptions about self-correcting markets stymied the Fed and how its leaders came to embrace new ideas"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Making sense of a crisis
- No crystal ball: August 2007
- Textures of doubt: September-December 2007
- A learning moment? January 2008
- Improvising in a liquidity crisis: March 2008
- Contested frames / competing logics: April-August 2008
- Accounting for a liquidity crisis: September 2008
- Learning after Lehman: September-December 2008
- The pathos and irony of technocratic control.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674980785
- 0674980786
- OCLC:
- 1111382270
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