Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lo, Andrew W.

Titel

Reading About the Financial Crisis: A Twenty-One-Book Review

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Economic Literature, 2012-03, Vol.50 (1), p.151-178

Ort / Verlag

Nashville: American Economic Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The recent financial crisis has generated many distinct perspectives from various quarters. In this article, I review a diverse set of twenty-one books on the crisis, eleven written by academics, and ten written by journalists and one former Treasury Secretary. No single narrative emerges from this broad and often contradictory collection of interpretations, but the sheer variety of conclusions is informative, and underscores the desperate need for the economics profession to establish a single set of facts from which more accurate inferences and narratives can be constructed.