Stewards of the Market

Description:

"Mitchel Abolafia goes behind the scenes with the Federal Reserve's powerful Open Market Committee as it responded to the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Relying on verbatim transcripts of closed meetings, Abolafia shows how assumptions about self-correcting markets stymied the Fed and how its leaders came to embrace new ideas"--

subjects: Economic history,  United states, economic conditions, 2001-2009,  United states, economic policy, 2001-2009,  Board of governors of the federal reserve system (u.s.),  Economic conditions,  Economic policy,  United States. Federal Open Market Committee