Abolafia, Mitchel,

Stewards of the market : how the Federal Reserve made sense of the financial crisis / Mitchel Y. Abolafia. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (215 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Making sense of a crisis -- No crystal ball: August 2007 -- Textures of doubt: September-December 2007 -- A learning moment? January 2008 -- Improvising in a liquidity crisis: March 2008 -- Contested frames / Accounting for a liquidity crisis: September 2008 -- Learning after Lehman: September-December 2008 -- The pathos and irony of technocratic control. competing logics: April-August 2008 --

"Mitchel Abolafia goes behind the scenes with the Federal Reserve's powerful Open Market Committee as it responded to the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Relying on verbatim transcripts of closed meetings, Abolafia shows how assumptions about self-correcting markets stymied the Fed and how its leaders came to embrace new ideas"--



9780674245358

2019044032


United States. Federal Open Market Committee.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)


Electronic Books.

HC106 / .S749 2020