Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I -- Creating the Great Boom; 1: Monetary Policy and the Financial Crisis; 2: Bungling Booms: How the Fed's Mishandling of the Productivity Boom Helped Pave the Way for the Housing Boom; 3: Chain Reaction: How the Fed's Asymmetric Policy in 2003 Led to a Panic in 2008; 4: The Great Liquidity Boom and the Monetary Superpower Hypothesis; Part II -- Creating the Great Recession; 5: How Nominal GDP Targeting Could Have Prevented the Crash of 2008
6: Ben Bernanke Versus Milton Friedman: The Federal Reserve's Emergence as the U.S. Economy's Central Planner7: The Great Recession and Monetary Disequilibrium; 8: A Global Liquidity Crisis; Part III -- Creating a Better Monetary System; 9: Nominal Income Targeting and Monetary Stability; 10: Should Monetary Policy "Lean or Clean"?; 11: Limited-Purpose Banking; 12: Central Banks as Sources of Financial Instability; Index; About the Contributors; Back Cover
Summary
Exploring the forceful renewal of the boom-and-bust cycle after several decades of economic stability, this book is a research-based review of the factors that caused the 2008 recession. It offers cutting-edge diagnoses of the recession and prescriptions on how to boost the economy from leading economists. The book concentrates on the Federal Reserve and its leading role in creating the economic boom and recession of the 2000s. Aimed at professional economists and readers well versed in the basic workings of the economy, it includes innovative proposals on how to avoid future boom-and-bust cycles
