Mcgraw-hill Education

Mcgraw-hill Education - The cost of capitalism: understanding market mayhem and stabilizing our economic future, hardcover/robert barbera

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A Street economist's strategy for managing market madness A punchy and relevant book on our present distress that has, at its core, one very big and useful idea.

Portfolio Heeding the lessons of the last few years, as documented in this book, may help both financiers and government policy makers find ways to reduce some future costs of capitalism without sacrificing all the potential rewards.

The New York Times Barbera] challenges the blind faith in free markets.

The Economist Barbera .

is] one of the few commentators actually saying something interesting and innovative about the crisis.

Asia Times The Cost of Capitalism is a must-read and a thoroughly enjoyable one--for those who want to understand the Crisis of 2008 and hammer out a new framework for decision making.

Jared L.

Cohon, President, Carnegie Mellon University Readers who absorb the lessons of this book will be armed with more than mere technique; they will acquire an attitude that will make them better investors for the rest of their lives.

Paul De Rosa, Principal, Mt.

Lucas Management Corp.

The Cost of Capitalism translates the economic diagnoses and theories of my father, Hyman Minsky.

It captures the vivacity of a post dinner conversation not coincidentally my father's favorite forum for elaborating, educating, and entertaining.

Diana Minsky, Art Historian, Bard College Lucid, intriguing, brilliant Barbera combines the uncertainty and speculation of Keynes with Schumpeter's Creative Destruction and Hy Minsky's Deflationary Destruction into a tasty stew.

James R.

Schlesinger, former Director, Central Intelligence Agency Long ago, Bob taught me that if you don't know Minsky, you don't know nothing.

This work shows the path out of nothingness.

Paul A.

Mc Culley, Chief Investment Officer, Pacific Investment Management Company Barbera's recommendations are profound in their simplicity.

Let us hope Wall Street, Main Street, Washington, and academia embrace them.

Jack Rivkin, former.