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Boom & bust :

(Number (ISBN

0844743836 (pbk.)

(Number (ISBN

0844743844 (ebook)

(Number (ISBN

9780844743837 (pbk.)

(Number (ISBN

9780844743844 (ebook)

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b521863

Title Proper

Boom & bust :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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financial cycles and human prosperity /

First Statement of Responsibility

Alex J. Pollock.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Blue Ridge Summit, PA :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Distributed by arrangement with the National Book Network,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2011.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xv, 93 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

17 cm.

Series Title

The common sense concepts series

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Includes bibliographical references.

Text of Note

Nothing new under the financial sun -- The disturbing experience of watching your friends get rich -- All too human -- Panic -- Bubbles and economics : confounding Isaac Newton -- Did they really believe house prices couldn't go down? -- A $5 trillion government failure -- The yin and yang of two big balance sheets -- The golden age of government regulation? -- Taking risks, taking responsibility -- Can you regulate systemic risk when you are the systemic risk?

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"I am the head of a small but successful international funds management operation and I also teach a post grad course in Market and Risk Analysis. When I saw this title I was hopeful of learning something or at the very least being able to point my students to the book to explain basic concepts. Unfortunately I couldn't recommend this book to anyone. It has no insight into economics, financial systems or market cycles. It does have a whole lot of unsubstantiated opinion about the benefits of unregulated markets, most of it so simplistic that it's almost embarrassing. You also get a lot of folksy homilies that take the place of thought and analysis. And just to round things out the author promotes his prejudices as fact. Well to be fair, he does quote other people who share his prejudices, but none of them provide any substance to his point of view either."--Paul Zahara

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Boom and bust

Business cycles-- United States-- History.

Finance-- United States-- History.

Financial crises-- United States-- History.

United States, Economic policy.

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Pollock, Alex J.

Date of Transaction

20140303022400.0

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