Getting it Wrong: How Faulty Monetary Statistics Undermine the Fed, the Financial System, and the Economy

by William A. Barnett and Apostolos Serletis

Book Overview

A leading economist contends that the recent financial crisis was caused not by the failure of mainstream economics but by corrupted monetary data constructed without reference to economics.

Blame for the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession has commonly been assigned to everyone from Wall Street firms to individual homeowners. It has been widely argued that the crisis and recession were caused by "greed" and the failure...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262516888
• ISBN13: 9780262516884
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher