Reading About the Financial Crisis: A Twenty-One-Book Review
The recent financial crisis has generated many distinct perspectives from various quarters. In this article, I review a diverse set of twenty-one books on the crisis, eleven written by academics, and ten written by journalists and one former Treasury Secretary. No single narrative emerges from this...
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| description | The recent financial crisis has generated many distinct perspectives from various quarters. In this article, I review a diverse set of twenty-one books on the crisis, eleven written by academics, and ten written by journalists and one former Treasury Secretary. No single narrative emerges from this broad and often contradictory collection of interpretations, but the sheer variety of conclusions is informative, and underscores the desperate need for the economics profession to establish a single set of facts from which more accurate inferences and narratives can be constructed. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/753602022-10-03T10:25:50Z Reading About the Financial Crisis: A Twenty-One-Book Review Lo, Andrew W. Sloan School of Management Lo, Andrew W. The recent financial crisis has generated many distinct perspectives from various quarters. In this article, I review a diverse set of twenty-one books on the crisis, eleven written by academics, and ten written by journalists and one former Treasury Secretary. No single narrative emerges from this broad and often contradictory collection of interpretations, but the sheer variety of conclusions is informative, and underscores the desperate need for the economics profession to establish a single set of facts from which more accurate inferences and narratives can be constructed. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Financial Engineering 2012-12-11T14:26:27Z 2012-12-11T14:26:27Z 2012-03 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0022-0515 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75360 Lo, Andrew W. "Reading about the Financial Crisis: A Twenty-One-Book Review." Journal of Economic Literature, 50(1): 151-78 (2012). https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2944-7773 en_US http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1257/jel.50.1.151 Journal of Economic Literature Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Economic Association AEA |
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