Gods that Failed : How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future.
by
Eliott, Larry.
Title
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Gods that Failed : How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future.
Author
:
Eliott, Larry.
ISBN
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9780786744145
Personal Author
:
Eliott, Larry.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (228 pages)
Contents
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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 217 -- CHAPTER 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.
Abstract
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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.
Local Note
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Subject Term
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Capitalism.
Economic history -- 1945-.
Economic security.
Electronic books. -- local.
Financial crises.
Genre
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Electronic books.
Added Author
:
Atkinson, Dan.
Electronic Access
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| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
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| IYTE Library | E-Book | 1212942-1001 | HB3722 -- .E45 2009 EB | Ebrary E-Books |