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Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System (Wiley Finance)

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Best Book on Crisis So Far

By Samuel J. Sharp - May 10, 2009

I read this book immediately after I finished Cooper's The Origin of Financial Crises which was highly recommended by the usually trustworthy Economist. For several reasons, Restoring Financial Stability (RFS) is the best book on the current crisis by a long ways. I am shocked that there is only one Amazon review so far.

RFS is neither dumbed-down nor overly complex. Anyone who reads the Wall Street Journal or Financial Times will easily grasp the material covered and the language being used. The sources cited for the individual essays are predominately articles from academic journals but the authors of RFS do a nice job of summarizing the important points from these articles rather than assuming the reader is familiar with the sources. I am a history major and had no trouble following the authors.

You do not need to be interested in the solutions proposed in order to buy the book. The policy recommendations are brief and follow the much more important background... read more

Forest vs Trees

By EWC - June 13, 2009

Restoring Financial Stability is the best book I've read on the crisis so far. It is filled with valuable data. It covers many different aspects of the situation. And, for the most part, it is even handed in its criticisms, never resorting to the many highly biased political explanations. But from my perspective it falls short on several counts.

Most importantly, this crisis was clearly a supply driven phenomena. It's not as though the demand for housing drove up the price of financing - quite the opposite. A worldwide excess of short-term funding drove up the price of assets. Gladly, the book does not resort to the trite argument that the Fed inflated the money supply by lowering short-term interest rates following the 2002 recession, as M2/GDP fails to convincingly confirm much if any monetary inflation. Instead, the book unfortunately makes no account of the source of this funding whatsoever. It never even crosses its radar screen. I would say that misses the forest from... read more

Outstanding resource and guide

By Christopher Myrick "Chris Myrick" - April 16, 2009

NYU Stern has put together a tremendous, comprehensive and timely guide to the ongoing financial crisis. The book superbly summarizes the roots of the crisis, the scale of the problems across the financial sector and possible public policy solutions in a clear and non-partisan manner. This is a volume that I hope finds its way to the desks of every policy maker and politician - both in the US and abroad. I would also strongly recommend this to everyone involved in banking or finance (including, and perhaps particularly, financial journalists).

For those interested in the text's contents, Stern has a fantastic site featuring on-line resources including video of the book-launch conference and executive summaries of each of the book's chapters ( http://whitepapers.stern.nyu.edu/home.html )

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