After the Crash
Designing a Depression-free Economy
1st Edition
Published on 8. January 2010
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-4443-3358-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book analyzes in a new way the causes of the current crash by showing how such events derive from real estate bubbles and their interactions with banks and other lenders.
Analyzes the current crisis of the real estate crash and explains the recurring cycle which led to it
Examines why frequent assessments are crucial to making the property tax an effective method of preventing speculative real estate bubbles
Combines theoretical analysis with observed cycles of land speculation to demonstrate the impact on the modern economy
Analyzes the current crisis of the real estate crash and explains the recurring cycle which led to it
Examines why frequent assessments are crucial to making the property tax an effective method of preventing speculative real estate bubbles
Combines theoretical analysis with observed cycles of land speculation to demonstrate the impact on the modern economy
Reviews / Votes
"Gaffney has been publishing vital contributions to economics since his PhD dissertation in 1956." (Sun Life Financial, November 2009)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4443-3358-9 (9781444333589)
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Book
01/2010
Wiley
€51.50
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Person
Mason Gaffney has been a professor of economics at the University of California, Riverside for the past 33 years. He is the author of The Corruption of Economics, an explanation of how land became excluded from neoclassical economic models. He has also written extensively on various aspects of resource economics, urban economics, tax policy, and capital theory.
Content
Frontispiece Portrait of Mason Gaffney.
Editor's Introduction (Clifford W. Cobb).
1. The Role of Land Markets in Economic Crises (Mason Gaffney).
2. A New Framework for Macroeconomics: Achieving Full Employment by Increasing Capital Turnover (Mason Gaffney).
3. Money, Credit, and Crisis (Mason Gaffney ).
Index.
Editor's Introduction (Clifford W. Cobb).
1. The Role of Land Markets in Economic Crises (Mason Gaffney).
2. A New Framework for Macroeconomics: Achieving Full Employment by Increasing Capital Turnover (Mason Gaffney).
3. Money, Credit, and Crisis (Mason Gaffney ).
Index.