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From our Recent Issues
By Joseph E. Davis
The recession of recent years has had painful consequences across the globe. In the United States, where it began, some 8 million jobs have disappeared, and countless more have been cut back… Read the rest of the essay…>
By Robert Jackall
Madoff’s fraud took money from 339 funds in forty countries. The total economic damage to his victims is estimated at about $65 billion. This does not include lost opportunity costs or the costs of rebuilding institutions and networks shattered by his fraud. And it does not include the emotional costs of the public exposure of the naivete that made his scam possible.…” Read the rest of the essay…>
By Philip Mirowski
Economists have not comported themselves with much dignity of late. Normally so quick off the mark to ferret out and expose irrationality in others, currently they have been distinctly loathe to recognize a pandemic within their own ranks. I refer here to the outpourings spewn forth by the economists themselves, provoked by the numerous embarrassments that have been visited upon them consequent to the onset of the world economic crisis… Read the rest of the essay…>
By Caitlin Zaloom
Wall Street is often compared to a casino. But what exactly does this mean? The popular press uses the association to tar the statistical whizzes and raucous traders of the financial world with the brush of illegitimate gains. The image also conjures a closed system in which each trade represents a zero sum game. The house collects what the rubes ante up.… Read the rest of the review…>
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