Reading About the Financial Crisis: A Twenty-One-Book Review
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: The recent financial crisis has generated many distinct perspectives from various quarters. In this article, I review a diverse set of twenty-one books on the crisis, eleven written by academics, and ten written by journalists and one former Treasury Secretary. No single narrative emerges from this broad and often contradictory collection of interpretations, but the sheer variety of conclusions is informative, and underscores the desperate need for the economics profession to establish a single set of facts from which more accurate inferences and narratives can be constructed. (JEL E32, E44, E52, G01, G21, G28)
Source: Journal of Economic Literature
DOI: 10.1257/jel.50.1.151
Author: Andrew W Lo
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2129695420