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<p><p>behind The Alarming Headlines About Job Losses, Bank Bailouts, And Corporate Greed Is A Little-known Story Of Bad Ideas. For Fifty Years Or More, Economists Have Been Busy Developing Elegant Theories Of How Markets Work&#8212;how They Facilitate Innovation, Wealth Creation, And An Efficient Allocation Of Society&#8217;s Resources. But What About When Markets Don&#8217;t Work? What About When They Lead To Stock Market Bubbles, Glaring Inequality, Polluted Rivers, Real Estate Crashes, And Credit Crunches?<p>in <i>how Markets Fail</i>, John Cassidy Describes The Rising Influence Of What He Calls Utopian Economics&#8212;thinking That Is Blind To How Real People Act And That Denies The Many Ways An Unregulated Free Market Can Produce Disastrous Unintended Consequences. He Then Looks To The Leading Edge Of Economic Theory, Including Behavioral Economics, To Offer A New Understanding Of The Economy&#8212;one That Casts Aside The Old Assumption That People And Firms Make Decisions Purely On The Basis Of Rational Self-interest. Taking The Global Financial Crisis And Current Recession As His Starting Point, Cassidy Explores A World In Which Everybody Is Connected And Social Contagion I

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Author

Cassidy, John, 1963-

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780141939421

Category

business

Subjects

Economics, Business

Rating

4.03 / 5 (1,711 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14