TY  - BOOK
AU  - Piketty,Thomas
AU  - Ackerman,Seth
TI  - Why saved the bankers?: : and other essays on our economic and political crisis
SN  - 9780544663329
U1  - 330.94 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
KW  - Financial crises
KW  - Europe
KW  - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
KW  - Banks and banking, Central
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes index; Why save the bankers?; A trillion dollars; Obama and FDR : a misleading analogy; Profits, wages, and inequality; The Irish disaster; Central banks at work; Forgotten inequalities; Mysteries of the carbon tax; Lessons for the tax system from the Bettencourt affair; Enough of GDP, let's go back to national income; Down with idiotic taxes!; Who will be the winners of the crisis?; With or without a platform?; Record bank profits : a matter of politics; No, the Greeks aren't lazy; Europe against the markets; Rethinking central banks; Does Liliana Bettencourt pay taxes?; Toward a calm debate on the wealth tax; Should we fear the Fed?; The scandal of the Irish bank bailout; Japan : private wealth, public debts; Greece : for a European bank tax; Poor as Jobs; Rethinking the European project — and fast; Protectionism : a useful weapon ... For lack of anything better; François Hollande, a new Roosevelt for Europe?; Federalism: the only solution; The what and why of federalism; Action, fast!; Merkhollande and the Eurozone : shortsighted selfishness; The Italian elections : Europe’s responsibility; For a European wealth tax; Slavery : reparations through transparency; A new Europe to overcome the crisis; Can growth save us?; IMF : still a ways to go!; Libé : what does it mean to be free?; On oligarchy in America; To the polls, citizens!; The exorbitant cost of being a small country; Capital in Hong Kong?; Capital according to Carlos Fuentes; 2015 : what shocks can get Europe moving?; Spreading the democratic revolution to the rest of Europe; The double hardship of the working class; Must debts always be paid back?; A crackdown alone will solve nothing
ER  -