Econned How Unenlightened Self Interest Damaged Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism (H/C)
Econned How Unenlightened Self Interest Damaged Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism (H/C)
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Overview
Why Are We in Such a Financial Mess Today? There Are Lots of Proximate Causes Over-Leverage, Global Imbalances, Bad Financial Technology That Lead to Widespread Underestimation of Risk. but These Are All Symptoms. Until We Isolate and Tackle Fundamental Causes, We Will Fail to Extirpate the Disease. Econned is the First Book to Examine the Unquestioned Role of Economists As Policy-Makers, and How They Helped Create an Unmitigated Economic Disaster. Here, Yves Smith Looks at How Economists in Key Policy Positions Put Doctrine Before Hard Evidence, Ignoring the Deteriorating Conditions and Rising Dangers That Eventually Led Them, and Us, Off the Cliff and Into Financial Meltdown. Intelligently Written for the Layman, Smith Takes Us on a Terrifying Investigation of the Financial Realm Over the Last Twenty-Five Years of Misrepresentations, Naive Interpretations of Economic Conditions, Rationalizations of Bad Outcomes, and Rejection of Clear Signs of Growing Instability.
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Weight:
0.541 kgDepartment:
AcademicGroup:
EconomicsCategory:
Print BooksAuthor:
Smith YPublisher:
PALGRAVE/RED GLOBE PRESSISBN:
9780230620513Edition:
1ST - 2010Estimated Shipping:
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