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Robert J. Barbera, Ph.D., is executive vice president and chief economist at ITG and an Economics Department Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He formerly served as chief economist and director of economic research at Lehman Brothers. Before arriving on Wall Street, Barbera was a staff economist for Senator Paul Tsongas and an economist for the Congressional Budget Office.
| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
| The Postcrisis Case for a New Paradigm | p. 1 |
| Financial Markets and Monetary Policy in Perspective | |
| The Markets Stoke the Boom and Bust Cycle | p. 15 |
| The ABCs of Risky Finance | p. 25 |
| Financial Markets as a Source of Instability | p. 37 |
| Free Market Capitalism: Still the Superior Strategy | p. 55 |
| Monetary Policy: Not the Wrong Men, the Wrong Model | p. 71 |
| Economic Experience: 1985-2002 | |
| How Financial Instability Emerged in the 1980s | p. 83 |
| Financial Mayhem in Asia: Japan's Implosion and the Asian Contagion | p. 93 |
| The Brave-New-World Boom Goes Bust: The 1990s Technology Bubble | p. 107 |
| Emerging Realities: 2007-2008 | |
| Greenspan's Conundrum Fosters the Housing Bubble | p. 123 |
| Bernanke's Calamity and the Onset of U.S. Recession | p. 139 |
| Domino Defaults, Global Markets Crisis, and End of the Great Moderation | p. 149 |
| Recasting Economic Theory for the Twenty-First Century | |
| Economic Orthodoxy on the Eve of the Crisis | p. 161 |
| Minsky and Monetary Policy | p. 177 |
| One Practitioner's Professional Journey | p. 191 |
| Global Policy Risks in the Aftermath of the 2008 Crisis | p. 205 |
| Notes | p. 217 |
| References | p. 225 |
| Index | p. 233 |
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