Econned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism

by Yves Smith

Book Overview

Why are we in such a financial mess today? There are lots of proximate causes: over-leverage, global imbalances, bad financial technology that lead to widespread underestimation of risk. But these are all symptoms. Until we isolate and tackle fundamental causes, we will fail to extirpate the disease. ECONned is the first book to examine the unquestioned role of economists as policy-makers, and how they helped create an unmitigated economic disaster...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230620515
• ISBN13: 9780230620513
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.5"