How markets fail : the logic of economic calamities
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374173203
- ISBN: 9780670068609
- ISBN: 0374173206
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Physical Description:
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viii, 390 p. : ill ; 24 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2009.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Warnings ignored and the conventional wisdom -- Adam Smith's invisible hand -- Friedrich Hayek's telecommunications system -- The perfect markets of Lausanne -- The mathematics of bliss -- The evangelist -- The coin-tossing view of finance -- The triumph of utopian economics -- The prof and the polar bears -- A taxonomy of failure -- The prisoner's dilemma and rational irrationality -- Hidden information and the market for lemons -- Keynes's beauty contest -- The rational herd -- Psychology returns to economics --Hyman Minsky and Ponzi finance -- Greenspan shrugs -- The lure of real estate -- The subprime chain -- In the alphabet soup -- A matter of incentives -- London Bridge is falling down -- Socialism in our time. |
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Subject: | Financial crises Stock exchanges Monetary policy Banks and banking |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Castlegar Campus Library | HB 3722 C37 2009 (Text)
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B001264829 | General | Volume hold | Available | - |