TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ramaa Vasudevan
AU  - Ramaa Vasudevan
TI  - Things Fall Apart : : From the Crash of 2008 to the Great Slump
SN  - 9788132110989
U1  - 330.9730 VAS 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New Delhi 
PB  - : SAGE Publications
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Economics
N1  - Cover ; Contents; List of Figures ; List of Abbreviations ; Preface ; 1 --
All That Is Solid Melts into Air ; 2 --
The Tip of the Iceberg ; 3 --
The House of Cards ; 4 --
When Wall Street Rules Main Street ; 5 --
Another Gilded Age ; 6 --
Dollar Rules ; 7 --
Aftershocks: The Crisis Goes Global ; 8 --
Beyond the Crisis
N2  - 	
The crash of 2008, when financial markets came to a standstill, has had profound effects that are still being felt globally. Five years after those dramatic events, countries such as Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Cyprus are still reeling from the aftereffects of the financial crash, while the USA and the UK continue to be in the grip of a long slump. The crash exposed criminal swindles and the more rampant risky practices that have become the norm with the major banks. It has also revealed the failure of policy to curb unbridled risk taking with other people's money and the failure of pol
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