Behavioral economics and the credit-crisis novel -- Credit, characterization, personification -- Photography and foreclosure -- Houses of horror -- Coda : the living indebted (on students and sabotage)

"The chapters in this book reflect on people's relationships with past financial crises - from public opinion to business leaders and policy makers. In connection with financial crises, Remembering and Learning from Financial Crises addresses three fundamental questions: first, are financial...

Introduction / Henry J. Aaron and Joel Slemrod -- The tax shelter battle / Joseph Bankman -- Issues of international tax enforcement / David R. Tillinghast -- Small business and the tax system / Joel Slemrod -- The Turbotax revolution : can technology solve tax complexity? / Austan Goolsbee --...

1973, im Jahr, als das Bretton-Woods-System zusammenbrach, ertüftelten die Ökonomen Black und Scholes eine nobelpreisgekrönte Formel, mit der sich Risiken "objektiv" bewerten und in Waren verwandeln lassen. Dieses Modell, ohne das der Aufstieg des Finanzkapitalismus, dessen Krise längst die...