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Financial whirlpools : a systems story of the great global recession / Karen L. Higgins.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2013.Description: xxxviii, 360 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780124059054
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.90511 23
LOC classification:
  • HB3717 .H54 2013
Summary: "How do economists reconcile their expertise with their failures to predict and manage the 2008 financial crisis? This book goes a long way toward an answer by using systems theory to reveal the complex interdependence of factors and forces behind the crisis. In her fully integrated view of the economy, how it works, and how the economic crisis burst, Karen Higgins combines human psychology, cultural values, and belief formation with descriptions of the ways banks and markets succeed and fail"--Amazon.com.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
Main Long Main Long KCA Kitengela Campus Library Non-fiction HB3717 .H54 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 28302/16 Available KIT16020267

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"How do economists reconcile their expertise with their failures to predict and manage the 2008 financial crisis? This book goes a long way toward an answer by using systems theory to reveal the complex interdependence of factors and forces behind the crisis. In her fully integrated view of the economy, how it works, and how the economic crisis burst, Karen Higgins combines human psychology, cultural values, and belief formation with descriptions of the ways banks and markets succeed and fail"--Amazon.com.

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