MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Until about 10 years ago, it was fashionable among policy makers to suppose that relatively rich countries had grown or evolved beyond the stage where they would be vulnerable to debilitating financial crises. The reasoning was that financial markets had become sophisticated, in part because big companies knew how to diversify their risks. And with a large continent-wide real (i.e., nonfinancial) economy, what could possibly go wrong on a scale that would be large enough to shake the American or the European financial system?This view proved completely wrong; ...