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Higgins, Karen L.

Financial whirlpools : a systems story of the great global recession / Karen L. Higgins - London : Elsevier, 2013 - xxxviii, 360 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-344) and index.

Pt. 1. Foundations -- pt. 2. The yin: human behaviors -- pt. 3. The yang: economic mechanisms -- pt. 4. Yin and yang: integration.

"How do economists reconcile their expertise with their failures to predict and manage the 2008 financial crisis? This book goes a long way toward an answer by using systems theory to reveal the complex interdependence of factors and forces behind the crisis. In her fully integrated view of the economy, how it works, and how the economic crisis burst, Karen Higgins combines human psychology, cultural values, and belief formation with descriptions of the ways banks and markets succeed and fail"--Amazon.com.

ISBN: 9780124059054

LCCN: 2013370509

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB314871 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016279698 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
System theory
Policies
Risk
Human behaviors
Norms
Systems interpretation
Financial market
Ethics
Economic mechanisms
High-risk loans
Credit
Integration

LC Class. No.: HB 3717 / .H54 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 330.90511