01642nam a22002297a 4500999001700000005001700017008004100034020001800075082001700093100002000110245008700130260004500217300002300262365000700285505032500292520060900617650002001226655001401246700002001260942000901280952012301289 c51485d5148520190719105230.0190719b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d a9788132110989 a330.9730 VAS aRamaa Vasudevan aThings Fall Apart b: From the Crash of 2008 to the Great Slump.c/Ramaa Vasudevan aNew Delhi b: SAGE Publicationsc, 2013. a245 pagesc;20 cm. b00 aCover ; 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  a 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. aSocial Sciences aEconomics aRamaa Vasudevan cBOOK 00102ddc4070aSNULbSNULd2019-07-19eDonated g0.00o330.9730 VASp17397r2019-07-19 00:00:00w2019-07-19yBOOKz