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Author:

Greenspan, Alan, 1926-

Title:

The map and the territory : risk, human nature, and the future of forecasting / Alan Greenspan.

Publisher:

The Penguin Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Economic forecasting--United States.
Financial crises--United States.
United States--Economic policy.
Economic forecasting.
Risk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Animal spirits -- The crisis begins, intensifies, and abates -- The roots of crisis -- Stock prices and equity stimulus -- Finance and regulation -- Schooner intelligence and then some -- Uncertainty undermines investment -- Productivity: the ultimate measure of economic success -- Productivity and the age of entitlements -- Culture -- The onset of globalization, income inequality, and the rise of the gini -- Money and inflation -- Buffers -- The bottom line.

Summary:

Explains how the financial crisis has challenged fundamental assumptions about leading economic models, drawing on twenty-first-century technologies and the expertise of behavioral economists to outline new forecasting practices.

ISBN:

1594204810
9781594204814

OCLC:

(OCoLC)837179768

LCCN:

2013028130

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