Unchecked and unbalanced : how the discrepancy between knowledge and power caused the financial crisis and threatens democracy /
In Unchecked and Unbalanced, Arnold Kling provides a blueprint for those who are skeptical of political and financial elitism. At the heart of Kling's argument is the growing discrepancy between two phenomena: knowledge is becoming more diffuse, while political power is becoming more concentrat...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham : Stanford, Calif. : [Lanham, MD] :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ; In cooperation with Hoover Institution, Stanford University ; Distributed by National Book Network,
c2010.
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| Series: | Hoover studies in politics, economics, and society.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | In Unchecked and Unbalanced, Arnold Kling provides a blueprint for those who are skeptical of political and financial elitism. At the heart of Kling's argument is the growing discrepancy between two phenomena: knowledge is becoming more diffuse, while political power is becoming more concentrated. Kling sees this knowledge/power discrepancy at the heart of the financial crisis of 2008. Financial industry executives and regulatory officials lacked the ability to fathom the complexity of the systemthat had emerged. And, in response, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Board Ch. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 122 p.). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442201262 1442201266 1282522221 9781282522220 9786612522222 6612522224 |
