How Markets Fail: The Rise and Fall of Free Market Economics - Softcover

Cassidy, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250781280 ISBN 13: 9781250781284

Publisher: Picador USA, 2021

Synopsis

In How Markets Fail, veteran New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy offers a provocative take on the misguided economic thinking that produced the 2008 financial crisis--now with a new preface addressing how its lessons remain unheeded in the present.

A Pulitzer Prize Finalist
An Economist Book of the Year
A Businessweek Best Book of the Year

For fifty years, economists have been developing elegant theories or how markets facilitate innovation, create wealth, and allocate society's resources efficiently. But what about when they fail, when they lead us to stock market bubbles, glaring inequality, polluted rivers, and credit crunches?

In this updated and expanded edition of How Markets Fail, John Cassidy describes the rising influence of "utopian economies"--the thinking that is blind to how real people act and that denies the many ways an unregulated free market can bring on disaster. Combining on-the-ground reporting and clear explanations of economic theories Cassidy warns that in today's economic crisis, following old orthodoxies isn't just misguided--it's downright dangerous.

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About the Author

John Cassidy is a journalist at The New Yorker and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is the author of How Markets Fail and Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era and lives in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Picador USA
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250781280
• ISBN 13: 9781250781284
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432