What caused the financial crisis

What caused the financial crisis [electronic resource] / edited by Jeffrey Friedman. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011. - ix, 360 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-335) and index.

Capitalism and the crisis : bankers, bonuses, ideology, and ignorance / Jeffrey Friedman -- An accident waiting to happen : securities regulation and financial deregulation / Amar Bhid -- Monetary policy, credit extension, and housing bubbles : 2008 and 1929 / Steven Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith -- The anatomy of a murder : who killed the American economy? / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Monetary policy, economic policy, and the financial crisis : an empirical analysis of what went wrong / John B. Taylor -- Housing initiatives and other policy factors / Peter J. Wallison -- How securitization concentrated risk in the financial sector / Viral V. Acharya and Matthew Richardson -- A regulated meltdown : the Basel rules and banks' leverage / Juliusz Jablecki and Mateusz Machaj -- The credit-rating agencies and the subprime debacle / Lawrence J. White -- Credit-default swaps and the crisis / Peter J. Wallison -- The crisis of 2008 : lessons for and from economics / Daron Acemoglu -- The financial crisis and the systemic failure of the economics profession / David Colander ... [et al.] -- Afterword : the causes of the financial crisis / Richard A. Posner.


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Financial crises--History--United States--21st century.
Finance--History--United States--21st century.


United States--Economic policy--2001-2009.


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