The 2007-08 financial crisis surprised many economists and the public. But how did the crisis come about, why was it so deep, and why has the clean-up been so slow and painful?Many accounts of the crisis focus on renegade activity in marginal financial sectors. Shadow Networks challenges this pervading view and sets out to demonstrate that, far from a dissident branch, the shadow finance that initiated the crisis is tightly networked with, and highly profitable for, bank-based finance. The collapse was not an accident, but baked into the system of finance from the start. Shadow Networks traces the complex web of power that caused crisis and gives vivid descriptions of the actors in the quarter century leading up to 2007 to explain how the now decade-long crisis took shape.Shadow Networks: Financial Disorder and the System that Caused Crisis is a probing examination of the roles of the powerful elite. It traces the networks and institutions that support a finance-focused, market centered model of economy and society from their ascendancy to their surprising resilience in the face of manifest failures.

Shadow Networks: Financial Disorder and the System that Caused Crisis

Business & Money

Louçã, Francisco

Ash, Michael

Economics

Oxford University Press

The Internet and mobile telephones have made everyone more aware than ever of the computer revolution and its effects on the economy and society. 'As Time Goes By' puts this revolution in the perspective of previous waves of technical change: steam-powered mechanization, electrification, and motorization. It argues for a theory of reasoned economic history which assigns a central place to these successive technological revolutions.

As Time Goes By: From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution

Freeman, Chris

The Internet and mobile telephones have made everyone more aware than ever of the computer revolution and its effects on the economy and society. 'As Time Goes By' puts this revolution in the perspective of previous waves of technical change: steam-powered mechanization, electrification, and motorization. It argues for a theory of reasoned economic history which assigns a central place to these successive technological revolutions.

The Years of High Econometrics (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)

A fascinating and comprehensive history, this book explores the most important transformation in twentieth century economics: the creation of econometrics. Containing fresh archival material that has not been published before and taking Ragnar Frisch as the narrator, Francisco Louca discusses both the keys events - the establishment of the Econometric Society, the Cowles Commission and the journal Econometrica – and the major players - economists like Wesley Mitchell, mathematicians like John von Neumann and statisticians like Karl Pearson - in history that shaped the development of econometrics. He discusses the evolution of their thought, detailing the debates, the quarrels and the interrogations that crystallized their work and even offers a conclusion of sorts, suggesting that some of the more influential thinkers abandoned econometrics or became critical of its development. International in scope and appeal, The Years of High Econometrics is an excellent accompaniment for students taking courses on probability, econometric methods and the history of economic thought.

The Years of High Econometrics: A Short History of the Generation that Reinvented Economics (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)

Routledge

383p hardcover, glossy dustjacket, slight shelfwear, ink inscription to endpaper, otherwise as new

Turbulence in Economics: An Evolutionary Appraisal of Cycles and Complexity in Historical Processes

Edward Elgar Publishing

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Shadow Networks: Financial Disorder and the System that Caused Crisis

As Time Goes By: From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution

As Time Goes By: From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution

The Years of High Econometrics: A Short History of the Generation that Reinvented Economics (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)

The Years of High Econometrics (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)

Turbulence in Economics: An Evolutionary Appraisal of Cycles and Complexity in Historical Processes