Overview
How do economists reconcile their expertise with their failures to predict and manage the 2008 financial crisis? This book goes a long way toward an answer by using systems theory to reveal the complex interdependence of factors and forces behind the crisis. In her fully integrated view of the economy, how it works, and how the economic crisis burst, Karen Higgins combines human psychology, cultural values, and belief formation with descriptions of the ways banks and markets succeed and fail. In each chapter she introduces themes from financial crisis literature and brings a systems-theory treatment of them. Her methodology and visual presentations both develop the tools of systems theory and apply these tools to the financial crisis. Not just another volume about the crisis, this book challenges the status quo through its unique multidisciplinary approach.
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Author: Karen L. Higgins (Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA) ,
Karen L. Higgins (Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA) ,
Karen L. Higgins (Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA) ,
Karen L. Higgins (Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA)
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint: Academic Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.650kg
ISBN: 9780124059054
ISBN 10: 0124059058
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 04 June 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This book delivers revealing insights about how systems theory can inform the way we think about financial systems. It has the power to change the way we think about economic crises. --Luke Houghton, Griffith University, Australia Financial Whirlpools insists that the economy must be studied as a complex whole that is capable of producing unexpected results and brings these insights to bear on the financial sector. The book is a welcome departure from the individualistic and mechanistic thinking that blinded a profession to the possibility of the recent financial crisis. --Mark Setterfield, Trinity College, US
"""This book delivers revealing insights about how systems theory can inform the way we think about financial systems. It has the power to change the way we think about economic crises."" --Luke Houghton, Griffith University, Australia ""Financial Whirlpools insists that the economy must be studied as a complex whole that is capable of producing unexpected results and brings these insights to bear on the financial sector. The book is a welcome departure from the individualistic and mechanistic thinking that blinded a profession to the possibility of the recent financial crisis."" --Mark Setterfield, Trinity College, US"
This work applies 'systems thinking' (drawing on insights from economics, psychology, philosophy, ethics, and management) in order to analyze the dynamics of the global economic crisis that began in 2008. Unlike linear thinking, the systems framework takes into account such dynamics as feedback Loops, Lags between decisions and actions, Limits to systems such as the economy, and Levers for applying change in the most effective manner. --Reference & Research Book News, December 2013 This book delivers revealing insights about how systems theory can inform the way we think about financial systems. It has the power to change the way we think about economic crises. --Luke Houghton, Griffith University, Australia Financial Whirlpools insists that the economy must be studied as a complex whole that is capable of producing unexpected results and brings these insights to bear on the financial sector. The book is a welcome departure from the individualistic and mechanistic thinking that blinded a profession to the possibility of the recent financial crisis. --Mark Setterfield, Trinity College, US
Author Information
Dr. Karen Higgins is adjunct professor of management at the Drucker/Ito School of Management, Claremont Graduate University. She holds a Ph.D. in Executive Management, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, and B.S. in Mathematics. In her earlier career at Naval Air Warfare Center, China Lake, CA, she held the top civilian leadership position of Executive Director and Director for Research and Engineering.
