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How markets fail : the logic of economic calamities / John Cassidy. |
| Authors: | Cassidy, John, 1963- |
| Call number: | 381 CAS |
| Publisher: | New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. |
| Publication date: | 2009. |
| Subject: |
Financial crises.
Stock exchanges. Monetary policy. Banks and banking. |
| Title: | How markets fail : the logic of economic calamities / John Cassidy. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | viii, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Summary note: | John Cassidy describes the rising influence of what he calls utopian economics--thinking that is blind to how real people act and that denies the many ways an unregulated free market can produce disastrous unintended consequences. He then looks to the leading edge of economic theory, including behavioral economics, to offer a new understanding of the economy--one that casts aside the old assumption that people and firms make decisions purely on the basis of rational self-interest. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780374173203 (hardcover) 0374173206 (hardcover) |
| LCCN: | 2009029529 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1221693 |
| Bib No.: | 1221693 |
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