Smithers, Andrew <br/><br/>
The road to recovery :  how and why economic policy must change / 
Andrew Smithers. 
 - xiii, 279 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index. 
<br/><br/>1 Introduction<br/>2 Why the Recovery Has Been So Weak<br/>3 Alternative Explanations for Today's Low Business Investment and High Profit Margins<br/>4 Forecasting Errors in the UK and the US<br/>5 Cyclical or Structural : The Key Issue for Policy<br/>6 The Particular Problem of Finance and Banking<br/>7 Japan Has a Similar Problem with a Different Cause<br/>8 The End of the Post-War Era<br/>9 Misinformation as a Barrier to Sound Policy Decisions<br/>10 Avoiding Future Financial Crises<br/>11 The Current High Level of Risk<br/>12 Inflation<br/>13 Prospects Not Forecasts<br/>14 Tackling the Bonus Culture<br/>15 The Need for Change in Economic Theory and the Resistance to It<br/>16 Summary and Conclusions 
<br/><br/> Providing practical guidance on reducing government, household and business debt, a well-respected economist stresses the importance of revising the neoclassical consensus governing global-economic decision-making to avoid the next financial collapse 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781118515662 (cloth) 1118515668 (cloth) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013026697 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economic policy.<br/>Política económica<br/>Financial crises--Prevention.<br/>Crisis financiera --Prevención 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD 87  / S664r 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>339.5