Featuring essays by Nobel laureate economists and an afterword by Richard Posner, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the collapse of the global financial sector in 2008. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the nature of modern capitalism and regulation.
Featuring essays by Nobel laureate economists and an afterword by Richard Posner, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the collapse of the global financial sector in 2008. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the nature of modern capitalism and regulation.
Jeffrey Friedman is a visiting scholar in the Department of Government at the University of Texas, Austin and Max Weber Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advancement of the Social Sciences, Boston University. He is the editor of Critical Review.
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List of Illustrations 1. Capitalism and the Crisis: Bankers, Bonuses, Ideology, and Ignorance —Jeffrey Friedman PART I. THE CRISIS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 2. An Accident Waiting to Happen: Securities Regulation and Financial Deregulation —Amar Bhide 3. Monetary Policy, Credit Extension, and Housing Bubbles, 2008 and 1929 —Steven Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith PART II. WHAT WENT WRONG (AND WHAT DIDN'T)? 4. The Anatomy of a Murder: Who Killed the American Economy? —Joseph E. Stiglitz 5. Monetary Policy, Economic Policy, and the Financial Crisis: An Empirical Analysis of What Went Wrong —John B. Taylor 6. Housing Initiatives and Other Policy Factors —Peter J. Wallison 7. How Securitization Concentrated Risk in the Financial Sector —Viral V. Acharya and Matthew Richardson 8. A Regulated Meltdown: The Basel Rules and Banks' Leverage —Juliusz Jablecki and Mateusz Machaj 9. The Credit-Rating Agencies and the Subprime Debacle —Lawrence J. White 10. Credit-Default Swaps and the Crisis Peter J. Wallison PART III. ECONOMISTS, ECONOMICS, AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS 11. The Crisis of 2008: Lessons for and from Economics —Daron Acemoglu 12. The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of the Economics Profession —David Colander, Michael Goldberg, Armin Haas, Katarina Juselius, Alan Kirman, Thomas Lux, and Brigitte Sloth Afterword: The Causes of the Financial Crisis —Richard A. Posner List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes References List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations 1. Capitalism and the Crisis: Bankers, Bonuses, Ideology, and Ignorance —Jeffrey Friedman PART I. THE CRISIS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 2. An Accident Waiting to Happen: Securities Regulation and Financial Deregulation —Amar Bhide 3. Monetary Policy, Credit Extension, and Housing Bubbles, 2008 and 1929 —Steven Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith PART II. WHAT WENT WRONG (AND WHAT DIDN'T)? 4. The Anatomy of a Murder: Who Killed the American Economy? —Joseph E. Stiglitz 5. Monetary Policy, Economic Policy, and the Financial Crisis: An Empirical Analysis of What Went Wrong —John B. Taylor 6. Housing Initiatives and Other Policy Factors —Peter J. Wallison 7. How Securitization Concentrated Risk in the Financial Sector —Viral V. Acharya and Matthew Richardson 8. A Regulated Meltdown: The Basel Rules and Banks' Leverage —Juliusz Jablecki and Mateusz Machaj 9. The Credit-Rating Agencies and the Subprime Debacle —Lawrence J. White 10. Credit-Default Swaps and the Crisis Peter J. Wallison PART III. ECONOMISTS, ECONOMICS, AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS 11. The Crisis of 2008: Lessons for and from Economics —Daron Acemoglu 12. The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of the Economics Profession —David Colander, Michael Goldberg, Armin Haas, Katarina Juselius, Alan Kirman, Thomas Lux, and Brigitte Sloth Afterword: The Causes of the Financial Crisis —Richard A. Posner List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes References List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
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