Somebody in Charge
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-29461-9 (ISBN)
PIERRE LEMIEUX is a Research Fellow at The Independent Institute, Professor of Economics at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (Canada), and co-chairman of the GREL (Groupe de Recherche Économie et Liberté).
Introduction: Adult Supervision PART I: THE LIMITS OF AUTHORITY Social Complexity The Impossibility of Planning The Inconvenient Individual The Tribe and the Great Society PART II: ARE RECESSIONS POSSIBLE? Business Cycles and Crashes An Economist in Wonderland Classical Economics Recessions Happen PART III: MACROECONOMIC CONTROVERSIES The Old Idea of Underconsumption Keynes's Ideas: A Brief Summary Price Adjustments Multiplying Bread and Fish Meaningless Aggregates Information and Coordination Government Activism More Recent Theories of the Business Cycle PART IV: THE MIXED ECONOMY A Failure of Capitalism? Government Revenues and Expenditures Regulation and Control The Welfare State Businessmen as Domestic Animals PART V: FINANCIAL DEREGULATION: AN URBAN LEGEND Lax Regulation Deregulation U.S. Banks in a World Perspective Necessary Regulation? PART VI: THE CRIME SCENE: ENVY OF THE WORLD Residential Home Market Driven by Government A Half-nationalized Residential Mortgage Market Securitization Subsidization of Risk The Collapse of the House of Cards Larger Consequences PART VII: MONETARY MEDDLING The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle Some Doubts on the Austrian Interpretation of the Crisis Monetary Policy Played a Role On Balance: A Contributing Factor PART VIII: STATE ANIMAL SPIRITS State Greed Faddish Behavior and State Bubbles Regulatory failure Collectivism Power and Hubris Systemic risk Conclusion: Something Must Be Done Bibliography Name Index Topics Index Charts
Erscheinungsdatum | 12.08.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 2 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 208 p. 4 illus., 2 illus. in color. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
Schlagworte | Keynes • Macroeconomics • monetary policy |
ISBN-10 | 1-349-29461-6 / 1349294616 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-29461-9 / 9781349294619 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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