Political Bubbles : : Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy / / Nolan McCarty, Howard Rosenthal, Keith T. Poole.

Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"--policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles--arising from a potent combination of beliefs, institutions, and interests--aid, abet, and am...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 3 halftones. 26 line illus. 11 tables.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Political Bubble. Why Washington Allows Financial Crises to Occur
  • Chapter 1. Bubble Expectations
  • Chapter 2. Ideology
  • Chapter 3. Interests
  • Chapter 4. Institutions
  • Chapter 5. The Political Bubble of the Crisis of 2008
  • Part II. Pops. Why Washington Delays in Solving Financial Crises
  • Chapter 6. Historical Lessons of the Responses to Pops
  • Chapter 7. The Pop of 2008
  • Chapter 8. "Pop"ulism
  • Chapter 9 . How to Waste a Crisis
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index