The Subprime Virus: Reckless Credit, Regulatory Failure, and Next Steps

by Patricia A. McCoy and Kathleen C. Engel

Book Overview

The subprime crisis shook the American economy to its core. How did it happen? Where was the government? Did anyone see the crisis coming? Will the new financial reforms avoid a repeat performance?

In this lively new book, Kathleen C. Engel and Patricia A. McCoy answer these questions as they tell the story behind the subprime crisis. The authors, experts in the law and the economics of financial regulation and consumer lending, offer a sharply...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195388828
• ISBN13: 9780195388824
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"