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The road to financial reformation The road to financial reformation Henry Kaufman Our financial crisis: what happened, how we got here, and what needs to be done Henry Kaufman-an esteemed economist and statesman-is one of the most preeminent financial figures of the day, with a h… OL11546198W
Fool's gold Fool's gold Gillian Tett Award-winning journalist and social anthropologist Gillian Tett takes us inside the shadowy world of complex finance and derivatives and explains how the business of slicing and dicing debt led us to… OL15712259W
From financial crisis to stagnation From financial crisis to stagnation Thomas I. Palley "The U.S. economy today is confronted with the prospect of extended stagnation. This book explores why. Thomas I. Palley argues that the Great Recession and destruction of shared prosperity is due to… OL16002740W
Inside job Inside job Charles H. Ferguson The definitive big picture on the financial crisis from the man behind the film "Inside Job", one of the top 30 documentaries of all time and an Oscar-winning film. Based on explosive interviews cond… OL16451730W
Hard times Hard times Tom Clark "2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions we… OL17886706W
ECONned ECONned Yves Smith 362 p. : 25 cm OL18568193W
The Panic of 1907 The Panic of 1907 Robert F. Bruner "Before reading The Panic of 1907, the year 1907 seemed like a long time ago and a different world. The authors, however, bring this story alive in a fast-moving book, and the reader sees how events … OL1900977W
The housing boom and bust The housing boom and bust Thomas Sowell This is a plain-English explanation of how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The “creative” financing of home mo… OL1935778W
Why Wall Street matters Why Wall Street matters William D. Cohan "A timely, counterintuitive defense of Wall Street and the big banks as the invisible--albeit flawed--engines that power our ideas, and should be made to work better for all of us Maybe you think the… OL19662253W
Nur Deutschland kann den Euro retten Nur Deutschland kann den Euro retten Heiner Flassbeck Nur Deutschland kann die Eurozone retten, weil nur über Lohnerhöhungen hier die Lücke in der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit geschlossen werden kann, ohne Europa noch tiefer in Depression und Deflation zu treib… OL24753612W
Fault lines - Verwerfungen Fault lines - Verwerfungen Raghuram G. Rajan Aus der Finanzkrise ist über die Währungskrise längst eine weltweite Bedrohung des Finanzsystems geworden. Die akuten Brandherde der globalen Finanzstruktur scheinen zwar immer wieder unter Kontrolle… OL24826301W