ECONned : how unenlightened self interest damaged democracy and corrupted capitalism /
Yves Smith.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- 362 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-357) and index.
The sorcerer's apprentices -- Blinded by science -- The voodo of financial economics -- Neoclassical economics: the triumph of elegant math over messy facts -- How "free markets" was sold -- The sorcerer's apprentice (needs to be renamed) -- How deregulation led to predation -- It's not the bubbles, it's the leverage -- Looting v. 2.0: the doomsday machines -- Houston, we have a problem.
Financial crises--United States--21st century. Economics--History.--United States Neoclassical school of economics. Free enterprise--History.--United States
United States--Economic conditions--21st century. United States--Economic policy.