Perry Mehrling: 3 books
by Perry Mehrling, Aaron Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
praise for FISCHER BLACK AND THE REVOLUTIONARY IDEA OF FINANCE
"The story of Fischer Black. . . . is remarkable both because of the creativity of the man and because of the revolution he brought to Wall Street. . . . Mehrling's book is fascinating."
—FINANCIAL TIMES
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The New Lombard Street
How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street, published in 1873 in the wake of a devastating London bank collapse, explained in clear and straightforward terms why central banks must serve as the lender of last resort to ensure liquidity in a faltering credit system. Bagehot's book set down the principles that...
Debt, Crisis and Recovery: The 1930's and the 1990's
The 1930's and the 1990's
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This book provides a perspective by a prominent economist on the problems of debt, recession, and recovery in the 1930s as compared with the 1990s. The book begins with several chapters on the explosion of debt in the public and private sectors during the 1970s and 1980s, and its implications for...