Alchemists of loss [[electronic resource] ] : how modern finance and government intervention crashed the financial system / / Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson
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| Autore: |
Dowd Kevin K
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| Titolo: |
Alchemists of loss [[electronic resource] ] : how modern finance and government intervention crashed the financial system / / Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson
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| Pubblicazione: | Chichester, West Sussex, : Wiley, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (434 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 332 |
| Soggetto topico: | Economic history - 1990- |
| Capital market | |
| Altri autori: |
HutchinsonMartin
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Past successes and disasters -- pt. 2. The modern financial theory engine -- pt. 3. Interactions with the real world -- pt. 4. Policy accommodates modern finance -- pt. 5. Götterdämmerung -- pt. 6. Charting a new way forward. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | An engaging look at how modern finance almost destroyed our global economy Over the last thirty years, capital markets have been restructured through the tenets of modern finance. This has been enormously profitable for the financial services sector. However, these innovations, coupled with unsound risk and regulatory practices have proved disastrous for the global economy. In a clear and accessible style, ex-investment banker and financial journalist Martin Hutchinson, and highly respected academic, Kevin Dowd show how modern finance combined with easy money threatened to bring |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Alchemists of loss |
| ISBN: | 1-119-20601-4 |
| 1-283-23950-7 | |
| 9786613239501 | |
| 0-470-97208-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824969603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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