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Title Misunderstanding financial crises : why we don't see them coming / Gary B. Gorton.
Author Gorton, Gary.
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012.


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 In Library  24 hour  Level 3 High Demand  Economics A4055 GOR  
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Description xiv, 278 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
ISBN 9780199922901 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Creating the quiet period -- Financial crises -- Liquidity and secrets -- Credit booms and manias -- The timing of crises -- Economic theory without history -- Debt during crises -- The quiet period and its end -- Moral hazard and too-big-to-fail -- Bank capital -- Fat cats, crisis costs, and the paradox of financial crises -- The panic of 2007-2008 -- The theory and practice of seeing.
Library Class Economics A4055
Subject Financial crises -- United States.
United States -- Economic policy.
Monetary policy -- United States.

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