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Gambling with other people's money : how perverse incentives caused the financial crisis

Title
Gambling with other people's money : how perverse incentives caused the financial crisis / Russ Roberts.
Author
Roberts, Russ, 1954-
Publication
  • Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Description
xvii, 108 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 692
Uniform Title
Hoover Institution Press publication ; 692.
Subject
  • 2000-2099
  • Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
  • Financial leverage > United States > History > 21st century
  • Financial crises > United States > History > 21st century
  • Monetary policy > United States > History > 21st century
  • Finance > Government policy > History > United States > 21st century
  • Banks and banking > Corrupt practices
  • Banks and banking > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Finance > Government policy
  • Financial crises
  • Financial leverage
  • Monetary policy
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-98) and index.
Contents
Acknowledgements -- Preface to the 2019 edition -- Introduction -- Gambling with other people's money -- Did creditors expect to get rescued? -- What about equity holders? -- Heads : they win a ridiculously enormous amount : tails : they win just an enormous amount -- How creditor rescue and housing policy combined with regulation to blow up the housing market -- Fannie and Freddie -- Fannie and Freddie : cause or effect? -- Commercial banks and investment banks -- Picking up nickels -- Basel : faulty -- Where do we go from here? -- Notes -- Index -- About the author.
Call Number
JFD 19-4585
ISBN
  • 0817921850
  • 9780817921859
LCCN
2019285447
OCLC
1059270689
Author
Roberts, Russ, 1954- author.
Title
Gambling with other people's money : how perverse incentives caused the financial crisis / Russ Roberts.
Publisher
Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 692
Hoover Institution Press publication ; 692.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-98) and index.
Chronological Term
2000-2099
Research Call Number
JFD 19-4585
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