TY  - BOOK
N2  - "There is still no consensus on who or what caused the financial crisis which engulfed the world, beginning in the summer of 2007. A huge number of suspects have been identified, from greedy investment bankers, through feckless borrowers, dilatory regulators and myopic central bankers to violent video games and high levels of testosterone among the denizens of trading floors. There is not even agreement on whether the crisis shows a need for more government intervention in markets, or less: some maintain that government encouragement of home ownership lay at the heart of the problem in the US, in particular. In The Financial Crisis Howard Davies charts a course through these arguments, and the evidence advanced for each of them. The reader can thereby assess the weight to be attached to each, and the likely effectiveness of the remedies under development."- -Description viewed from website on 21 Sept. 2010.
AB  - "There is still no consensus on who or what caused the financial crisis which engulfed the world, beginning in the summer of 2007. A huge number of suspects have been identified, from greedy investment bankers, through feckless borrowers, dilatory regulators and myopic central bankers to violent video games and high levels of testosterone among the denizens of trading floors. There is not even agreement on whether the crisis shows a need for more government intervention in markets, or less: some maintain that government encouragement of home ownership lay at the heart of the problem in the US, in particular. In The Financial Crisis Howard Davies charts a course through these arguments, and the evidence advanced for each of them. The reader can thereby assess the weight to be attached to each, and the likely effectiveness of the remedies under development."- -Description viewed from website on 21 Sept. 2010.
T1  - The financial crisis :who is to blame? /
DA  - c2010.
CY  - Cambridge, UK ;
CY  - Malden, MA :
AU  - Davies, H.
CN  - HB3717
CN  - HB3717 2008
PB  - Polity Press,
PP  - Cambridge, UK ;
PP  - Malden, MA :
PY  - c2010.
ID  - 348091
KW  - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
KW  - Subprime mortgage loans
KW  - Bank failures
KW  - Banking law
KW  - Off balance sheet financing
KW  - Intervention (Federal government)
KW  - Credit ratings
SN  - 9780745651637
SN  - 0745651631
SN  - 9780745651644 (pbk.)
SN  - 074565164X (pbk.)
TI  - The financial crisis :who is to blame? /
LK  - http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745651637
UR  - http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745651637
ER  -