Lessons of the Financial Crisis

Informationen zum Autor Benn Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also the founding editor of "International Finance," a top scholarly economics journal, as well as a cofounder and managing member of Efficient Frontiers LLC, a capital markets consultancy. Klappentext The story of the financial crisis will be retold endlessly as one of widespread greed, corruption, and incompetence, enabled by a policy agenda dominated by an ideology of deregulation. Yet even if the marketplace had been populated by more ethical and conscientious individuals, and even if their activities had been more carefully scrutinized by regulators, the world would still have wound up with a major boom and bustsuch is the power, as history attests, of cheap money.

Product details

• Authors: Benn Steil
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9780876094327
• ISBN: 978-0-87609-432-7
• Series: Council on Foreign Relations; Council on Foreign Relations (
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business