TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cassidy,John
TI  - How markets fail: the logic of economic calamities 
SN  - 9781846143007 (hbk.)
U1  - 381 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Allen Lane, Penguin Books
KW  - Financial crises
KW  - Stock exchanges
KW  - Monetary policy
KW  - Banks and banking
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-370) and index; Warnings ignored -- The invisible hand -- Prices as signals -- Perfect markets -- Proof positive? -- The evangelist -- Efficient markets -- Lucasian economics -- "The prof and the polar bears" -- A taxonomy of failure -- The prisoner's dilemma -- The market for lemons -- The beauty contest -- The rational herd -- Enter the pyschologists -- The irrational herd -- Ponzi finance -- The fountainhead -- The housing boom -- Subprime delusions -- TK -- TK
ER  -