Stewards of the Market : : How the Federal Reserve Made Sense of the Financial Crisis / / Mitchel Y. Abolafia.

Mitchel Abolafia goes behind the scenes with the Federal Reserve’s powerful Open Market Committee as it responded to the 2008–2009 financial crisis. Relying on verbatim transcripts of closed meetings, Abolafia shows how assumptions about self-correcting markets stymied the Fed and how its leaders ca...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction: Making Sense of a Crisis --
1. No Crystal Ball: August 2007 --
2. Textures of Doubt: September–December 2007 --
3. A Learning Moment? January 2008 --
4. Improvising in a Liquidity Crisis: March 2008 --
5. Contested Frames / Competing Logics: April–August 2008 --
6. Accounting for a Legitimacy Crisis: September 2008 --
7. Learning after Lehman: September–December 2008 --
8. The Pathos and Irony of Technocratic Control --
Appendix A: Members of the Federal Open Market Committee, August 2007–December 2008 --
Appendix B: A Note on Methods --
Notes --
Acknowledgments --
References --
Index
Summary:Mitchel Abolafia goes behind the scenes with the Federal Reserve’s powerful Open Market Committee as it responded to the 2008–2009 financial crisis. Relying on verbatim transcripts of closed meetings, Abolafia shows how assumptions about self-correcting markets stymied the Fed and how its leaders came to embrace new ideas.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780674245358
9783110690057
DOI:10.4159/9780674245358?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Mitchel Y. Abolafia.