Awards
- Commended for PROSE (Economics) 2010
Overview
Discover how the global financial plague is poised to return, and what can be done to stop it This is not your father's financial system. Jimmy Stewart, the trustworthy, honest banker in the movie, It's a Wonderful Life, is dead. And so is his small-town bank, Bailey Savings & Loan. Instead, we're watching It's a Horrible Mess with Wall Street (aka the Vegas Strip) playing ever larger craps with our economy and our tax dollars. This book, written by one of the world's most respected economist, describes in lively, humorous, simple, but also deadly serious terms the big con underlying the big game?the web of interconnected financial, political, and regulatory malfeasance that culminated in financial meltdown and brought us to our economic knees. But it also proposes an amazingly simply solution?Limited Purpose Banking to make Wall Street safe for Main Street. This book, as well as the financial fix described within it, have received rave reviews from a veritable who's who of policymakers and economics, plus five economics Nobel Laureates Written by a leading economist whose insights on this topic are unparalleled Outlines the first and only proposal to fundamentally fix our financial disaster for good Jimmy Stewart Is Dead will fundamentally change the way you think about the economy, financial markets, and the government.
Full Product Details
Author: Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.462kg
ISBN: 9780470581551
ISBN 10: 0470581557
Pages: 241
Publication Date: 26 February 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
Kotlikoff has presented a thought-provoking proposal that merits attention in the debate over financial regulation. -Kenneth Silber, FrumForum.com, March 2010 Jimmy Stewart Is Dead makes for provocative reading. We certainly have squandered much of America's business and economic strength in the pursuit of personal gain and huge if not obscene bonuses. ... It might just be easier to find another Jimmy Stewart. I'd call him Mr. Smith. And I'd ask him to go to Washington. -Philip Moeller, U.S. News & World Report
Author Information
LAURENCE J. KOTLIKOFF is a William Fairfield Warren Professor of Economics at Boston University, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Fellow of the Econometric Society, and former Senior Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisers. Coauthor of The Coming Generational Storm and Spend 'Til the End and author of The Healthcare Fix, Kotlikoff has been published extensively in the nation's leading newspapers, magazines, and financial web sites on financial reform, taxes, saving, growth, deficits, Social Security, healthcare, pensions, and personal finance.
