13 bankers : the Wall Street takeover and the next financial meltdown /
Thirteen bankers
Simon Johnson and James Kwak.
- 1st Vintage Books ed.
- New York : Vintage Books, 2011, c2010.
- 316 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, c2010. "With a new epilogue"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-290) and index.
Introduction: 13 bankers -- Thomas Jefferson and the financial aristocracy -- Other people's oligarchs -- Wall Street rising : 1980- -- "Greed is good" : the takeover -- The best deal ever -- Too big to fail -- The American oligarchy : six banks.
Provides historical context for the 2008 financial crisis and proposes a radical solution, the megabanks deemed "too big to fail" must be made smaller.--
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Banks and banking--United States. Bank failures--United States. Finance--United States. Financial crises--United States.