Fault lines
how hidden fractures still threaten the world economy
1st pbk. ed.
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Author
Publication
2011 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
67,500 words, Guess
Page Count
270 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25244173M
- ISBN-139780691152639
- OCLC Control Number751801216
- Library of Congress Control Number2011292787
Classifications
- DDC330.9/0511
- LCCHC110.I5 R36 2011
- LCCHC110.I5R36 2011
Description
Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In "Fault Lines", Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren't fixed. Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown - made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary home-owners - were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose. He traces the deepening fault lines in a world overly dependent on the indebted American consumer to power global economic growth and stave off global downturns.-- Economics.
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