Getting it Wrong
How Faulty Monetary Statistics Undermine the Fed, the Financial System, and the Economy
$76.75
- Paperback
360 pages
- Release Date
16 December 2011
Summary
A leading economist contends that the recent financial crisis was caused not by the failure of mainstream economics but by corrupted monetary data constructed without reference to economics.Blame for the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession has commonly been assigned to everyone from Wall Street firms to individual homeowners. It has been widely argued that the crisis and recession were caused by “greed” and the failure of mainstream economics. In Getting It Wrong, leading economi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262516884 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262516888 |
| Author: | William A. Barnett, Apostolos Serletis |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 16 December 2011 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Getting it Wrong |
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[A]n important contribution to our understanding of the $2 trillion meltdown.– Bloomberg –
[A]n important contribution to our understanding of the $2 trillion meltdown.
* Bloomberg *About The Author
William A. Barnett
William A. Barnett is Oswald Distinguished Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Kansas, Director at the Center for Financial Stability in New York City, and Senior Fellow at the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He is Editor of the eminent journal Macroeconomic Dynamics and is coauthor with Nobel Laureate Paul A. Samuelson of the book Inside the Economist’s Mind, translated into seven languages. He was on the staff of the Federal Reserve Board from 1974 to 1982.
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