Thursday, April 21, 2016

Madrick, Seven Bad Ideas (2014)

Jeff Madrick.
Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House), 2014.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Video and Audio: Jeff Madrick

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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Madrick, Age of Greed (2011)

Jeff Madrick.
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House LLC), 2011.

Book information:
Publisher; Books at author's website; Google Books; Amazon.com, hardcover; Amazon.com, paperback.

Author information:
  • Jeff Madrick, his website.
  • Jeff Madrick, The Century Foundation.
  • The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School for Social Research, New York.
  • Jeff Madrick, Adjunct Professor, The Cooper Union, New York.
  • Jeff Madrick, Wikipedia.
  • Jeff Madrick at The New York Review of Books.
  • Challenge.
  • Jeff Madrick, Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World, New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House LLC), 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    Seven Bad Ideas surveys the ideological justifications for the deregulated financial free market activities whose history Madrick describes in Age of Greed. The two books complement each other; the two together provide a more complete view of the period than each does individually.

Video and Audio: Jeff Madrick

Book Reviews and other essays:

Some Wikipedia Articles:

Financial Crises since 1970:

In Age of Greed Madrick surveys the financial history of the United States since 1970 by reviewing the careers of various key figures and representative men. These people are:

Saturday, April 02, 2016

Davis, Managed by the Markets (2009)

Gerald F. Davis.
Managed by the Markets: How Finance Re-Shaped America.
Oxford University Press, 2009.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Book excerpt: Gerald F. Davis, "Preface," Managed by the Markets, 2009.

Author information:
  • Jerry Davis, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
  • Jerry Davis, University of Michigan.
    (This webpage has links to copies of his Articles, Presentations, etc.)
  • Gerald F. Davis (b. 1961), Wikipedia.
  • Gerald Davis, Google Scholar Citations.
  • Gerald F. Davis, The Vanishing American Corporation: Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy, Oakland, California: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2016.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Video: Gerald F. Davis
Selected Papers: Gerald F. Davis
Many of Prof. Davis's papers are available at his website here.
Book Reviews:
Some Wikipedia Articles: