Nevada's Great Recession : Looking Back, Moving Forward / Elliott Parker ; contributions by Katherine Marshall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, Elliott, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nevada--Economic conditions--21st century.

Nevada.

Financial crises--Nevada.

Financial crises.

Recessions--Nevada.

Recessions.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Place of Publication:

Reno & Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, 2017.

Summary:

"A collection of columns, current observations, and personal stories from a university economist and the former state treasurer that document the economic troubles of the state hardest hit by the Great Recession. The authors, who were brought together by the crisis, focus on what went wrong with the state's economy and how it affected the state budget and higher education, and discuss how to prevent it from happening again"-- Provided by publisher.

"Of all economic recessions experienced by the United States in the postwar period, the Great Recession that began in 2008 was the deepest, longest, and most destructive. Nevada was among the hardest hit states, its people reeling from the aftereffects, and the state government also experiencing a severe fiscal crisis. University of Nevada economics professor Elliott Parker and then-State Treasurer Kate Marshall make sense of what went wrong and why, with the hope the state will learn lessons to prevent past mistakes from being made again. This is a different kind of economics book. Parker uses his expertise from doing research on the East Asian fiscal crisis to give profound insights into what happened and how to avoid future catastrophes. Marshall personalizes it by providing vignettes of what it was actually like to be in the trenches and fighting the inevitable political battles that came up, and counteracting some of the falsehoods that certain politicians were spreading about the recession. Parker and Marshall's book should be required reading for not only every single elected official in Nevada, but for any private citizen who cares about the public good"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780874175974

0874175976

OCLC:

988087296