The current economic crisis reveals just how central finance has become to American life. Problems with obscure securities created on Wall Street radiated outward to threaten the retirement security of pensioners in Florida and Arizona, the homes and college savings of families in Detroit and Southern California, and ultimately the global economy itself. The American government...(展开全部)

In recent years, we've been rocked by a series of economic jolts, and all of them seemed to revolve around finance. And the most recent, the American mortgage meltdown, has sent shock waves around the world. Managed by the Markets , which won the 2010 George R. Terry Book Award, offers an illuminating account of how finance has replaced manufacturing at the center of the Ameri...(展开全部)

作者简介： 威拉德·斯特恩·兰德尔（Willard Sterne Randall）主要研究美国建国时期的历史，曾在罗马的约翰·卡伯特大学、佛蒙特大学和尚普兰学院任教。他撰写过本杰明和威廉·富兰克林、本尼迪克特·阿诺德、托马斯·杰斐逊、乔治·华盛顿和亚历山大·汉密尔顿等人的传记。其中，本尼迪克特·阿诺德的传记获得了四项美国国家最佳图书奖，是“《纽约时报》重要图书”（New York Times Notable Book），并入围了“《洛杉矶时报》图书奖”（Los Angeles Times Book Prize）的决选；杰斐逊的传记被《出版商周刊》（Publishers Weekly）评为1993年十大最佳传记之一。兰德尔曾获得美国革命圆桌会议（American Revolution Round Table）的最高荣誉——优异奖（Award of Me...(展开全部)

威廉·L.西尔伯(WilliamL.Silber)，纽约大学斯特恩商学院金融学和经济学教授，证券市场格拉斯克曼研究所主任、教授。过去曾担任总统经济顾问委员会高级经济学家，还曾担任纽约联邦储备银行的经济顾问团成员，一直担任联邦储备委员会、美国参议院预算部、银行和金融服务房屋委员会、金融结构和监管协会等部门的顾问。在专业期刊上公开发表学术论文50多篇，担任《金融研究》《经济和统计评论》等杂志的副主编。出版图书和专著共9部。

Sarah L. Quinn is associate professor of sociology at the University of Washington.

Federal housing finance policy and mortgage-backed securities have gained widespread attention in recent years because of the 2008 financial crisis, but issues of government credit have been part of American life since the nation’s founding. From the 1780s, when a watershed national land credit policy was established, to the postwar foundations of our current housing finance sy...(展开全部)

How the American government has long used financial credit programs to create economic opportunities Federal housing finance policy and mortgage-backed securities have gained widespread attention in recent years because of the 2008 financial crisis, but issues of government credit have been part of American life since the nation’s founding. From the 1780s, when a watershed nati...(展开全部)

In this much-anticipated book, a leading economist argues that many key problems of the American economy are due not to the flaws of capitalism or the inevitabilities of globalization but to the concentration of corporate power. By lobbying against competition, the biggest firms drive profits higher while depressing wages and limiting opportunities for investment, innovation, a...(展开全部)

威廉·L.西尔伯(WilliamL.Silber)，纽约大学斯特恩商学院金融学和经济学教授，证券市场格拉斯克曼研究所主任、教授。过去曾担任总统经济顾问委员会高级经济学家，还曾担任纽约联邦储备银行的经济顾问团成员，一直担任联邦储备委员会、美国参议院预算部、银行和金融服务房屋委员会、金融结构和监管协会等部门的顾问。在专业期刊上公开发表学术论文50多篇，担任《金融研究》《经济和统计评论》等杂志的副主编。出版图书和专著共9部。

威廉·L.西尔伯(WilliamL.Silber)，纽约大学斯特恩商学院金融学和经济学教授，证券市场格拉斯克曼研究所主任、教授。过去曾担任总统经济顾问委员会高级经济学家，还曾担任纽约联邦储备银行的经济顾问团成员，一直担任联邦储备委员会、美国参议院预算部、银行和金融服务房屋委员会、金融结构和监管协会等部门的顾问。在专业期刊上公开发表学术论文50多篇，担任《金融研究》《经济和统计评论》等杂志的副主编。出版图书和专著共9部。