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The gods that failed : how blind faith in markets has cost us our future / Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson.
- Title
- The gods that failed : how blind faith in markets has cost us our future / Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson.
- Author
- Elliott, Larry.
- Publication
- New York : Nation Books, c2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Atkinson, Dan.
- Description
- viii, 288 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Argues that current economic difficulties trace their roots to an elite group of free-market advocates who began meeting in 1947, and whose speculative policies, when put into practice, have led to financial crisis.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Under the Volcano: 1929-1973-20?? 1 -- Chapter 2 The Rock and the Bear: A Tale of Two Banks 27 -- Chapter 3 Let s Go Round Again: The Free Marketeers Sixty Years War 49 -- Chapter 4 Sunday, Monday, Happy Days: The Goldilocks Economy 87 -- Chapter 5 The Rainy Season: Middle America Feels the Squeeze 107 -- Chapter 6 The Odd Couple: Alan Greenspan, Gordon Brown, and the World s Biggest Bubble 131 -- Chapter 7 Here There Be Monsters: The Perils Lurking in the Uncharted Waters of the Financial Markets 159 -- Chapter 8 Last Tango on Wall Street: The Fall of the American Miracle 189 -- Chapter 9 Thunder in the West: Scanning the Horizon for the Perfect Storm 217 -- Chapter 10 After the Gold Rush: How the New Populism Makes the Financial System Safer, Gives Ordinary People a Bigger Slice of the Cake, and Puts the New Olympians Back in Their Cage 243.
- ISBN
- 9781568586021 (alk. paper)
- 1568586027 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008045884
- OCLC
- 246894121
- SCSB-9939137
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library