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Bishop, Matthew, 1964-

The road from ruin : how to revive capitalism and put America back on top / Matthew Bishop and Michael Green.

1st ed.

New York : Crown Business, ©2010.

viii, 373 pages ; 25 cm

"Matthew Bishop and Michael Green first take a step back and analyze what can be learned from financial crises of the past-from the Tulip Craze of the seventeenth century through the Great Depression of the 1930s, Japan's Great Deflation, and the Long-Term Capital debacle of the 1990s to the unprecedented interventions of the government during the past year-to set the agenda for a reformed twenty-first-century capitalism."--Jacket.

Capitalism.

Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Financial crises -- Prevention.

Green, Michael (Michael F.)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-362) and index.

Nobel laureates and shoeshine boys: how innovation leads to bubbles -- The moral maze: how governments people the world with fools -- Money makes the world go wrong: a brief history of global imbalances -- The dangers of denial: how inaction leads to depression -- The reformer's challenge: don't throw out the baby with the bathwater -- Economics with a human face: toward a less dismal science -- A new world order: the world must redesign how it is governed -- The age of philanthrocapitalism: capitalism must rediscover its soul -- We are the change: making the right choices means increasing the wisdom of crowds -- Conclusion: the road ahead.

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