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ECONned

Paperback • 2011 • English

ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism

By Yves Smith

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About the book

ECONned examines the unquestioned role of economists as policy-makers, and how they helped create an unmitigated economic disaster. Why are we in such a financial mess today? There are lots of proximate causes: over-leverage, global imbalances, bad financial technology that lead to widespread underestimation of risk. But these are all symptoms. Until we isolate and tackle fundamental causes, we will fail to extirpate the disease. Here, Yves Smith looks at how economists in key policy position...Show more

Macroeconomics
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ISBN

9780230114562

Publisher

Macmillan

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

ECONned

Format

Paperback

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