The Housing Boom and Bust, 9780465019861
Paperback
Sowell provides a clear explanation of how America has gotten into the current economic disaster that has developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust.

The Housing Boom and Bust

revised edition

  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    22 February 2010

Summary

Scary headlines and scarier statistics tell the story of a financial crisis on a scale not seen in decades, certainly not within the lifetime of most Americans. Moreover, this is a worldwide financial crisis. Financial institutions on both sides of the Atlantic have either collapsed or have been saved from collapse by government bailouts, as a result of buying securities based on American housing values that eroded or evaporated. Now completely revised in paperback, The Housing Boom and Bust…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780465019861
ISBN-10:0465019862
Author:Thomas Sowell
Publisher:Basic Books
Imprint:Basic Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:22 February 2010
Weight:280g
Dimensions:232mm x 152mm x 20mm
About The Author

Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell has taught economics at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst, and other academic institutions, and his Basic Economics has been translated into six languages. He is currently a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has published in both academic journals and in such popular media as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes magazine, and Fortune, and he writes a syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country.

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