Financial whirlpools : a systems story of the great global recession / Karen L. Higgins

By:

Higgins, Karen L [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Elsevier, 2013Description: xxxviii, 360 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780124059054

Subject(s): DDC classification:

330.90511 23

LOC classification:

HB 3717 .H54 2013

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Publisher description

Contents:

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

Summary: "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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Business, Economics and Law Library Collection Special Reserve	Non-fiction	HB 3717 .H54 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C.1	Not For Loan		1838162

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.

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