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20%OFFRobert Wright (Ed.) - Bailouts: Public Money, Private Profit - 9780231150552 - V9780231150552
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Bailouts: Public Money, Private Profit

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Description for Bailouts: Public Money, Private Profit Paperback. Editor(s): Wright, Robert E. Series: Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk). Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCP; KFFK; KJV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 218.
Today's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives. Yet the response of the American government has been to bail out the very institutions and individuals that have wrought such havoc upon the nation. Are such massive bailouts really called for? Can they succeed? Robert E. Wright and his colleagues provide an unbiased history of government bailouts and a frank assessment of their effectiveness. Their book recounts colonial America's struggle to rectify the first dangerous real estate bubble and the British government's counterproductive response. It explains how Alexander Hamilton ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk)
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231150552
SKU
V9780231150552
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About Robert Wright (Ed.)
Robert E. Wright is holder of the Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana College, a research economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research, editor of Pickering and Chatto of London's financial history monograph series, and a guest curator for the Museum of American Finance.

Reviews for Bailouts: Public Money, Private Profit
A detailed study of the history of bailouts... [and] a must-read for anyone interested in the policy implications of bailouts.
Andrew Jalil EH.net A timely, accessible examination of government bailouts. Choice

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