Stewards of the market : how the Federal Reserve made sense of the financial crisis /

"Mitchel Abolafia goes behind the scenes with the Federal Reserve's powerful Open Market Committee as it responded to the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Relying on verbatim transcripts of closed meetings, Abolafia shows how assumptions about self-correcting markets stymied the Fed and how its...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Abolafia, Mitchel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
United States. > Federal Open Market Committee.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
Since 2001
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
Economic history.
Economic policy.
United States > Economic conditions > 2001-2009.
United States > Economic policy > 2001-2009.
United States > Economic policy > 2009-
États-Unis > Conditions économiques > 2001-2009.
États-Unis > Politique économique > 2001-2009.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Making sense of a crisis
  • No crystal ball: August 2007
  • Textures of doubt: September-December 2007
  • A learning moment? January 2008
  • Improvising in a liquidity crisis: March 2008
  • Contested frames / competing logics: April-August 2008
  • Accounting for a liquidity crisis: September 2008
  • Learning after Lehman: September-December 2008
  • The pathos and irony of technocratic control.

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