The gods that failed [electronic resource] : how blind faith in markets has cost us our future / Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elliott, Larry.

Contributor:

Atkinson, Dan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Economic history--1945-.

Economic history.

Economic security.

Financial crises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nation Books, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Two of our leading financial journalists demythologize the cult of free markets, and offer a devastating critique of the ideas and policies that have led to our current economic crisis

Contents:

CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1-Under the Volcano: 1929-1973-20?? 1; CHAPTER 2-The Rock and the Bear: A Tale of Two Banks 27; CHAPTER 3-Let's Go Round Again: The Free Marketeers' Sixty Years War 49; CHAPTER 4-Sunday, Monday, Happy Days: The Goldilocks Economy 87; CHAPTER 5-The Rainy Season: Middle America Feels the Squeeze 107; CHAPTER 6-The Odd Couple: Alan Greenspan, Gordon Brown, and the World's Biggest Bubble 131; CHAPTER 7-Here There Be Monsters: The Perils Lurking in the Uncharted Waters of the Financial Markets 159; CHAPTER 8-Last Tango on Wall Street: The Fall of the "American Miracle" 189

CHAPTER 9-Thunder in the West: Scanning the Horizon for the Perfect Storm 217CHAPTER 10-After the Gold Rush: How the New Populism Makes the Financial System Safer, Gives Ordinary People a Bigger Slice of the Cake, and Puts the New Olympians Back in Their Cage 243; AFTERWORD 273; INDEX 277

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-7867-4414-6

OCLC:

312765221