TY  - BOOK
AU  - Higgins,Karen L.
TI  - Financial whirlpools: a systems story of the great global recession 
SN  - 9780124059054
AV  - HB 3717  .H54 2013
U1  - 330.90511 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - Elsevier
KW  - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
KW  - System theory
KW  - Policies
KW  - Risk
KW  - Human behaviors
KW  - Norms
KW  - Systems interpretation
KW  - Financial market
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Economic mechanisms
KW  - High-risk loans
KW  - Credit
KW  - Integration
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2013370509-d.html
ER  -