The Bubble Economy: Is Sustainable Growth Possible?

by Robert U. Ayres

Book Overview

Why the global economy has become increasingly unstable, and how financial "de-carbonization" could break the pattern of bubble-driven wealth destruction.

The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime mortgages, banks "too big to fail," financial regulation (or the lack of it), and the European debt crisis. Wall Street has discovered that it is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262027437
• ISBN13: 9780262027434
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher