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Global Financial Meltdown
1. Introduction
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Part I. Evolution of the Modern Economic System
2. The Beauty (and the Beast) of Free Markets
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3. The Post-Industrial Revolution and the Transforming Economies
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Part II. Creation of the Consumer-Investor
4. The Anatomy of a Train Wreck
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5. Get Your Money for Nothing and Your Kicks for Free
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6. The World Threw a Party
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Part III. An Emerging New World
7. When I’m 64
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8. Progress Marches On
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9. Fill ‘Er Up
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10. Gold, Oil, and Dollars, and the Decline of an Economic Superpower
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Part IV. Banks and Central Banking
11. Too Clever by One Half
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12. Who’s Minding the Store?
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13. Who Spiked the Punchbowl?
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14. Who Stole the Punchbowl?
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15. Seems that We Have a Failure to Coordinate
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16. The Timely Death of Supply Side Economics
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Part V. Financial Failures
17. The Higher You Go, the Farther You Fall
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18. America Sneezes and the World Catches a Cold
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19. Asleep at the Switch
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20. The Bigger You Are, the Softer You Fall
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21. It’s Downright Criminal
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22. Somebody’s Hedging
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23. Markets and Technology — The Great Enabler or the Great Disabler?
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Part VI. Politics and Perceptions
24. Panics, Politics, and the Media
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25. The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself
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26. Do Stimulus Packages Work?
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27. When Politics Gets in the Way of Good Ole’ Common Sense
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28. The Taxman Cometh
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29. An Educated Global Citizen
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30. Let’s Build a Better Mousetrap
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31. Conclusions
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32. Epilogue
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Keywords: Business and Management, Accounting/Auditing, Finance, general, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics
- Author(s)
- Read, Colin
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 262 pages
- Category
- Economy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230595187
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-30770-8