Cassidy, John,    1963 <br/><br/>
How Markets Fail :    The logic of economic calamities /  
John Cas sidy 
 - London :    Penguin,    2010 
 - vi, 409 Pages. :    Illustrations ;    20 cm. 
<br/><br/>  Originally Published in London by Allen Lane, 2009 
<br/><br/>Warnings ignored and the conventional wisdom -- Adam Smith's invisib le hand -- Friedrich Hayek's telecommunications system -- The perfect m arkets of Lausanne -- The mathematics of bliss -- The evangelist -- The coin-tossing view of finance -- The triumph of utopian economics -- Th e prof and the polar bears -- A taxonomy of failure -- The prisoner's d ilemma and rational irrationality -- Hidden information and the market for lemons -- Keynes's beauty contest -- The rational herd -- Psycholog y returns to economics -- Hyman Minsky and Ponzi finance -- Greenspan s hrugs -- The lure of real estate -- The subprime chain -- In the alphab et soup -- A matter of incentives -- London Bridge is falling down -- S ocialism in our time. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780141036519 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Financial crises.<br/> Stock exchanges.<br/> Economics. -- Psychological aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>330.01