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Rajan, R.G.: Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy.
Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines , Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren't fixed. Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown--made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners--were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose. He traces the deepening fault lines in a world overly dependent on the indebted American consumer to power global economic growth and stave off global downturns.What went wrong with finance?
Oxford University Press: Slapped by the Invisible Hand: Gary B. Gorton
Description Originally written for a conference of the Federal Reserve, Gary Gorton's "The Panic of 2007" garnered enormous attention and is considered by many to be the most convincing take on the recent economic meltdown. Now, in Slapped by the Invisible Hand , Gorton builds upon this seminal work, explaining how the securitized-banking system, the nexus of financial markets and instruments unknown to most people, stands at the heart of the financial crisis. Gorton shows that the Panic of 2007 was not so different from the Panics of 1907 or of 1893, except that, in 2007, most people had never heard of the markets that were involved, didn't know how they worked, or what their purposes were. Terms like subprime mortgage, asset-backed commercial paper conduit, structured investment vehicle, credit derivative, securitization, or repo market were meaningless. In this superb volume, Gorton makes all of this crystal clear.
The Shadow Banking System
Why is macroeconomics such a mess? - 2011 - Events - drop-in-templates - Public events
Global Policy public lecture Date: Monday 10 October 2011 Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building Speaker: Professor Lord Eatwell Chair: Professor David Held There is very little agreement across the economics profession as to what macroeconomics actually consists of. Seventy-five years after the publication of Keynes's General Theory this lack of agreement has led to a weak and confused response to the international financial crisis/recession.
Economic Theory
"free-market" fundamentalism
Who needs regulation?
Structured Finance / Derviatives / Securitization
The Financialization of the world economy
High Frequency Trading
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