How Markets Fail
  • Published: 31 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141939421
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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How Markets Fail

The Logic of Economic Calamities

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'Anyone who enjoys a good read can safely embark on this tour with Cassidy as their guide . . . Cassidy is able to lead us with beguiling lucidity through unfamiliar territory' New Statesman

How did we get to where we are? John Cassidy shows that the roots of our most recent financial failure lie not with individuals, but with an idea - the idea that markets are inherently rational. He gives us the big picture behind the financial headlines, tracing the rise and fall of free market ideology from Adam Smith to Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan. Full of wit, sense and, above all, a deeper understanding, How Markets Fail argues for the end of 'utopian' economics, and the beginning of a pragmatic, reality-based way of thinking.
  • Published: 31 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141939421
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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Praise for How Markets Fail

A very good history of economic thought

Economist

How Markets Fail offers a brilliant intellectual framework . . . fine work

New York Times

An essential, grittily intellectual, yet compelling guide to the financial debacle of 2009

Geordie Greig, Evening Standard

A powerful argument . . . Cassidy makes a compelling case that a return to hands-off economics would be a disaster

BusinessWeek

This book is a well constructed, thoughtful and cogent account of how capitalism evolved to its current form

Telegraph Books of the Year recommendation

John Cassidy ... describe[s] that mix of insight and madness that brought the world's system to its knees

FT, Book of the Year recommendation

Anyone who enjoys a good read can safely embark on this tour with Cassidy as their guide . . . Like his colleague Malcolm Gladwell [at the New Yorker], Cassidy is able to lead us with beguiling lucidity through unfamiliar territory

New Statesman