1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785781503321

Titolo

Bailouts [[electronic resource] ] : public money, private profit / / edited by Robert E. Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, c2009

ISBN

0-231-52173-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Collana

A Columbia/SSRC book

Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council series on the privatization of risk

Classificazione

85.30

Altri autori (Persone)

WrightRobert E <1969-> (Robert Eric)

Disciplina

338.973/02

Soggetti

Bank failures - United States

Corporate reorganizations - United States

Corporate turnarounds - United States

Finance - Government policy - United States

Financial crises - United States

Intervention (Federal government) - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. To Bail or Not to Bail? / Wright, Robert E. -- 1. Hybrid Failures and Bailouts. Social Costs, Private Profits / Wright, Robert E. -- 2. Financial Crises and Government Responses. Lessons Learned / Gup, Benton E. -- 3. The Evolution of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation as a Lender of Last Resort in the Great Depression / Mason, Joseph R. -- 4. After the Storm. The Long-Run Impact of Bank Bailouts / Rosas, Guillermo / Jensen, Nathan M. -- Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Today's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives. Yet the response of the American government has been to bail out the very institutions and individuals that have wrought such havoc upon the nation. Are such massive bailouts really called for? Can they succeed?Robert E. Wright and his colleagues provide an unbiased history of government bailouts and a frank assessment of their effectiveness. Their book recounts colonial America's struggle to rectify the first dangerous real



estate bubble and the British government's counterproductive response. It explains how Alexander Hamilton allowed central banks and other lenders to bail out distressed but sound businesses without rewarding or encouraging the risky ones. And it shows how, in the second half of the twentieth century, governments began to bail out distressed companies, industries, and even entire economies in ways that subsidized risk takers while failing to reinvigorate the economy. By peering into the historical uses of public money to save private profit, this volume suggests better ways to control risk in the future.Additional Columbia / SSRC books on the privatization of risk and its implications for Americans:Health at Risk: America's Ailing Health System--and How to Heal ItEdited by Jacob S. HackerLaid Off, Laid Low: Political and Economic Consequences of Employment InsecurityEdited by Katherine S. NewmanPensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of RiskEdited by Mitchell A. Orenstein

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910825379403321

Titolo

A companion to Roman architecture / / edited by Roger B. Ulrich and Caroline K. Quenemoen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley and Sons, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-118-32511-7

1-118-32514-1

1-118-32512-5

1-118-32513-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 589 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to the ancient world

Classificazione

LIT004190

Altri autori (Persone)

UlrichRoger B

QuenemoenCaroline K

Disciplina

720.37

Soggetti

Architecture, Roman

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note:  Notes on Contributors



Maps/General Images Introduction 1. Italic Architecture of the Earlier First Millennium BCE Jeffrey A. Becker 2. Rome and Her Neighbors: Greek Building Practices In Republican Rome Penelope J.E. Davies 3. Creating Imperial Architecture Inge Nielsen 4. Columns and Concrete: Architecture from Nero to Hadrian Caroline K. Quenemoen 5. The Severan Period E.V. Thomas 6. The Architecture of Tetrarchy Emanuel Mayer 7. Architect and Patron James C. Anderson, Jr. 8. Plans, Measurement Systems, and Surveying: The Roman Technology of Pre-Building John R. Senseney 9. Materials and Techniques Lynne C. Lancaster and Roger B. Ulrich 10. Labor Force and Execution Rabun Taylor 11. Urban sanctuaries: The Early Republic to Augustus John W. Stamper 12. Monumental Architecture of Non-Urban Cult Places in Roman Italy Tesse D. Stek 13. Fora James F. D. Frakes 14. Funerary Cult and Architecture Kathryn J. McDonnell 15. Building for an Audience: the Architecture of Roman Spectacle Hazel Dodge 16. Roman Imperial Baths and Thermae Fikret K. Yegul 17. Courtyard Architecture in the Insulae of Ostia Antica Roger B. Ulrich 18. Domus/Single Family House John R. Clarke 19. Private Villas: Italy and the Provinces Mantha Zarmakoupi 20. Romanization Louise Revell 21. Streets and Facades Ray Laurence 22. Vitruvius and his Influence Ingrid Rowland 23. Ideological Applications: Roman Architecture and Fascist Romanit&agrave; Genevieve S. Gessert 24. Visualizing Architecture Then and Now: Mimesis and the Capitoline Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus Melanie Grunow Sobocinski 25. Conservation William Aylward Glossary References Index .

Sommario/riassunto

"An essential guide to recent scholarship, covering new archaeological discoveries, lesser known buildings, new technologies, and space and construction"--