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From Financial Crisis to Global Recovery
Padma Desai
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Description for From Financial Crisis to Global Recovery
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 35 illus. BIC Classification: KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
In this book, Padma Desai makes the complexities of economic policy and financial reform accessible to a wide audience. Merging a compelling narrative with scholarly research, she begins with a systematic breakdown of the factors leading to America's recent recession, describing the monetary policy, tax practices, subprime mortgage scandals, and lax regulation that contributed to the crisis. She also discusses the Treasury-Fed rescue deals that saved several financial institutions and the involvement of Congress in passing restorative policies. Desai follows with an analysis of stress tests and other economic measures, and she frankly assesses whether the U.S. economy is truly ... Read more
In this book, Padma Desai makes the complexities of economic policy and financial reform accessible to a wide audience. Merging a compelling narrative with scholarly research, she begins with a systematic breakdown of the factors leading to America's recent recession, describing the monetary policy, tax practices, subprime mortgage scandals, and lax regulation that contributed to the crisis. She also discusses the Treasury-Fed rescue deals that saved several financial institutions and the involvement of Congress in passing restorative policies. Desai follows with an analysis of stress tests and other economic measures, and she frankly assesses whether the U.S. economy is truly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231157865
SKU
V9780231157865
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About Padma Desai
Padma Desai is the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems and director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University. She has served as president of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies and as advisor to the Russian Finance Ministry for the U.S. Treasury. She is the author of Conversations on Russia and Financial Crisis, Contagion, ... Read more
Reviews for From Financial Crisis to Global Recovery
There are an abundance of books by journalists providing an insider's chronology of events. Yet there are few books that step back and provide an analytical perspective on the financial meltdown and the Great Recession. That is the great service Padma Desai provides in this book.
Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College, author of Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great ... Read more
Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College, author of Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great ... Read more