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Zusatztext Instead of a blow-by-blow account of the numerous bank rescue programmes, [Farlow's] book uses an economics lens to dissect the logic of each category of rescue measure to make them more digestible for the lay read...Half the book is devoted to the numerous policy struggles after the crash. Written before, during and in the years immediately after the crash, the book is a lively chronicle and engaging analysis of the events and thinking of these years and of the economic and political constraints that shaped response...a timely analysisa scholarly, yet highly accessible, account that will appeal to a wide audience and contribute to the public debate about the lessons to be learnt and future policy options. Informationen zum Autor Andrew Farlow is Research Fellow in Economics at Oriel College, University of Oxford. Educated in economics at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, he currently works in a range of areas of financial economics, including financial bubbles and instability, and global health financing. He has provided advice to a wide variety of public and private sector organizations including: Credit Suisse First Boston; the World Health Organisation; UK Department for International Development; Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; George Institute for International Health; Office of Health Economics, London; TB Alliance; Aeras Global TB Foundation; Médecins Sans Frontières; Wellcome Trust; and a range of governments. Klappentext Written by an author who had identified many of these issues in advance of the financial crash, this is an accessible, balanced, and comprehensive guide to the chief causes, responses to, and consequences of the recent financial crisis, covering both housing markets and financial institutions. Farlows focus on the importance of income inequality and deficiency of demand is refreshingly Keynesian in flavour... Crash and Beyond does much more than simply consider the causes of the crisis; it also looks to the policy response. Victoria Bateman, THE Zusammenfassung Written by an author who had identified many of these issues in advance of the financial crash, this is an accessible, balanced, and comprehensive guide to the chief causes, responses to, and consequences of the recent financial crisis, covering both housing markets and financial institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface PART ONE: BEFORE 1: Global Imbalances and the Rise of Debt 2: Housing and Mortgage Market Excess 3: Innovation and Excess in Banking PART TWO: CRASH AND RESCUE 4: Crash 5: Saving the Gods 6: Healing the Sick and Raising the Dead PART THREE: BEYOND 7: Return from Slump, and the Jobless and Joyless Recovery 8: Housing Market Meltdown, Rescue and Reform 9: Austerity and the Battles over Sovereign Debt 10: The Eurozone Crash 11: Global Rebalancing and Instability 12: Banking Reform CLOSING THOUGHTS BIBLIOGRAPHY ...
List of contents
- Preface
- PART ONE: BEFORE
- 1: Global Imbalances and the Rise of Debt
- 2: Housing and Mortgage Market Excess
- 3: Innovation and Excess in Banking
- PART TWO: CRASH AND RESCUE
- 4: Crash
- 5: Saving the Gods
- 6: Healing the Sick and Raising the Dead
- PART THREE: BEYOND
- 7: Return from Slump, and the Jobless and Joyless Recovery
- 8: Housing Market Meltdown, Rescue and Reform
- 9: Austerity and the Battles over Sovereign Debt
- 10: The Eurozone Crash
- 11: Global Rebalancing and Instability
- 12: Banking Reform
- CLOSING THOUGHTS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Farlow's focus on the importance of income inequality and deficiency of demand is refreshingly Keynesian in flavour ... Crash and Beyond does much more than simply consider the causes of the crisis; it also looks to the policy response. Victoria Bateman, Times Higher Education
