After the Crash: Designing a Depression-free Economy

After the Crash: Designing a Depression-free Economy
ISBN-10
1444333070
ISBN-13
9781444333077
Series
After the Crash
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
217
Language
English
Published
2009-11-16
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Author
Mason Gaffney

Description

This book analyzes in a new way the causes of the current crash by showing how such events derive from real estate bubbles and their interactions with banks and other lenders. It explains the current crisis, but in the process, the author develops a general theory of capital (drawing on Wicksell) showing how excessive investing in durable capital of slow payback can destabilize and then freeze up a modern economy, which requires constant circulation and renewal of capital to function. Combining that analysis with observed cycles of land speculation, Gaffney shows how a "perfect storm" formed and now has overwhelmed the economy.

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