House of debt : how they (and you) caused the Great Recession, and how we can prevent it from happening again /
Atif Mian and Amir Sufi.
- 219 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-207) and index.
A scandal in Bohemia -- p.1. Busted -- Debt and destruction -- Cutting back -- Levered losses: the theory -- Explaining unemployment -- p.2. Boil and bubble -- The credit expansion -- Conduit to disaster -- Debt and bubbles -- p.3. Stopping the cycle -- Save the banks, save the economy? -- Forgiveness -- Monetary and fiscal policy -- Sharing.
9780226081946 (cloth : alk. paper)
2013049671
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