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The Origin of Financial Crises

Central Banks, Credit Bubbles, and the Efficient Market Fallacy

By George Cooper

By George Cooper

By George Cooper

By George Cooper

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    About The Origin of Financial Crises

    In a series of disarmingly simple arguments financial market analyst George Cooper challenges the core principles of today’s economic orthodoxy and explains how we have created an economy that is inherently unstable and crisis prone. With great skill, he examines the very foundations of today’s economic philosophy and adds a compelling analysis of the forces behind economic crisis. His goal is nothing less than preventing the seemingly endless procession of damaging boom-bust cycles, unsustainable economic bubbles, crippling credit crunches, and debilitating inflation. His direct, conscientious, and honest approach will captivate any reader and is an invaluable aid in understanding today’s economy.

    About The Origin of Financial Crises

    In a series of disarmingly simple arguments financial market analyst George Cooper challenges the core principles of today’s economic orthodoxy and explains how we have created an economy that is inherently unstable and crisis prone. With great skill, he examines the very foundations of today’s economic philosophy and adds a compelling analysis of the forces behind economic crisis. His goal is nothing less than preventing the seemingly endless procession of damaging boom-bust cycles, unsustainable economic bubbles, crippling credit crunches, and debilitating inflation. His direct, conscientious, and honest approach will captivate any reader and is an invaluable aid in understanding today’s economy.

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    About George Cooper

    Dr. George Cooper is a principal of Alignment Investors a division of BlueCrest Capital Management Ltd. He was born in Sunderland and studied at Durham University. Dr. Cooper has worked as a fund manager at Goldman Sachs and as strategist… More about George Cooper

    About George Cooper

    Dr. George Cooper is a principal of Alignment Investors a division of BlueCrest Capital Management Ltd. He was born in Sunderland and studied at Durham University. Dr. Cooper has worked as a fund manager at Goldman Sachs and as strategist… More about George Cooper

    Product Details

    Category: Economics | Management | 21st Century U.S. History

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 29, 2008 | 208 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307473455

    Category: Economics | Management | 21st Century U.S. History

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    Dec 09, 2008 | 210 Pages | ISBN 9780307473684

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    Praise

    “A must-read on the origins of the crisis.” —The Economist “A well written book. . . . Cooper’s most novel doctrine is that investors do not have to be irrational to generate bubbles. . . . Mr. Cooper traces present difficulties to the rapid growth of credit encouraged by the Fed’s ultra-cheap money policy of a few years ago.”—Financial Times

    Table Of Contents

    Acknowledgements
    Preface to the Vintage Editon
    Preface to the Original Edition

    1. Introduction
    2. Efficient Markets and Central Banks?
    3. Money, Banks and Central Banks
    4. Stable and Unstable Markets
    5. Deceiving the Diligent
    6. On (Central Bank) Governors
    7. Minsky Meets Mandelbrot
    8. Beyond the Efficient Market Fallacy
    9. Concluding Remarks

    Appendix – ‘On Governors’ by J.C. Maxwell
    Index

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