How Markets Fail The Logic of Economic Calamities
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
John Cassidy has covered economics and finance at The New Yorker magazine since 1995, writing on topics ranging from Alan Greenspan to the Iraqi oil industry and English journalism. He is also now a Contributing Editor at Portfolio where he writes the monthly Economics column.
Two of his articles have been nominated for National Magazine Awards: an essay on Karl Marx, which appeared in October, 1997, and an account of the death of the British weapons scientist David Kelly, which was published in December, 2003. He has previously written for Sunday Times in as well as the New York Post, where he edited the Business section and then served as the deputy editor.
In 2002, Cassidy published his first book, Dot.Con. He lives in New York.
A very good history of economic thought
Economist
<i>How Markets Fail</i> offers a brilliant intellectual framework . . . fine work
New York Times
An essential, grittily intellectual, yet compelling guide to the financial debacle of 2009
Geordie Greig, Evening Standard
A powerful argument . . . Cassidy makes a compelling case that a return to hands-off economics would be a disaster
BusinessWeek
This book is a well constructed, thoughtful and cogent account of how capitalism evolved to its current form
Telegraph Books of the Year recommendation
John Cassidy ... describe[s] that mix of insight and madness that brought the world's system to its knees
FT, Book of the Year recommendation
Anyone who enjoys a good read can safely embark on this tour with Cassidy as their guide . . . Like his colleague<i> </i>Malcolm Gladwell [at the <i>New Yorker</i>], Cassidy is able to lead us with beguiling lucidity through unfamiliar territory
New Statesman
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
John Cassidy has covered economics and finance at The New Yorker magazine since 1995, writing on topics ranging from Alan Greenspan to the Iraqi oil industry and English journalism. He is also now a Contributing Editor at Portfolio where he writes the monthly Economics column.
Two of his articles have been nominated for National Magazine Awards: an essay on Karl Marx, which appeared in October, 1997, and an account of the death of the British weapons scientist David Kelly, which was published in December, 2003. He has previously written for Sunday Times in as well as the New York Post, where he edited the Business section and then served as the deputy editor.
In 2002, Cassidy published his first book, Dot.Con. He lives in New York.