Zombie Economics : How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us


John. Quiggin
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Princeton : : Princeton University Press, , 2010.
Omfang
1 online resource (249 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Great Moderation; Birth: Calm after the Storms; Life: The Great Risk Shift; Death: The Dissenters and Their Vindication; Reanimation: A Global Crisis or a Transitory Blip?; After the Zombies: Rethinking the Experience of theTwentieth Century; Further Reading; Chapter 2 The Efficient Markets Hypothesis; Chapter 3 Dynamic Stochastic General Equili; Chapter 4 Trickle -downEconomics; Chapter 5 Privatization; Conclusion Economics for the Twenty -first Century. - In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream economics, and their influence created a system where an unthinking faith in markets led many to view speculative investments as fundamentally safe. The crisis seemed to have killed off these ideas, but they still live on in the minds of many--members of the public, commentators, politicians, eco
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Dewey
330
ISBN
9780691145822

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