Title: The Cost of Capitalism: Understanding Market Mayhem and Stabilizing our Economic Future
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0071628444
ISBN 13: 9780071628440
Binding: hardcover
Condition: New
Weight: 19 ounces

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CNBC regular Robert J. Barbera offers a crystal clear explanation of the financial market crisis of 2008

While mainstream financial analysts are stringing together ad hoc explanations for the financial crisisof 2008, a relatively small group of economists saw this coming. In The Cost of Capitalism, Robert J.Barbera explains why.

Barbera makes the case that investors and policy-makers can reduce the risk of truly gruesome outcomes if they better planfor the violent economic storms, which history confirms are always over the horizon.

Investors will learn how to gird themselves for the roller-coaster ride that is free market capitalism;policy makers will find out how to plan for crises they know will occur at some point; and academiceconomists will rethink their pursuit of ever more elaborate mathematical models that bear noresemblance to the real world.

The message is simple: Stop pretending that people are always rational and that markets are alwaysefficient―and be prepared for market mayhem.

About the Author

Robert J. Barbera, Ph.D., is executive vicepresident and chief economist at ITG andan Economics Department Fellow at JohnsHopkins University. He has been a notedWall Street economist for over 25 years.Before arriving on Wall Street, Barbera wasa staff economist for Senator Paul Tsongasand an economist for the CongressionalBudget Offi ce.

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