Boom & bust
Subtitle: financial cycles and human prosperity
By: Alex J. Pollock
Series: Common sense concepts series
Publisher: AEI Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9780844743837; 9780844743844
Subjects: Economic policy; Financial crises; Business cycles; Finance; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Nothing new under the financial sun; title: The disturbing experience of watching your friends get rich; title: All too human; title: Panic; title: Bubbles and economics : confounding Isaac Newton; title: Did they really believe house prices couldn't go down?; title: A $5 trillion government failure; title: The yin and yang of two big balance sheets; title: The golden age of government regulation?; title: Taking risks, taking responsibility; title: Can you regulate systemic risk when you are the systemic risk?