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Overview

"There was no single, dramatic event that set this off, the way the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand set off the chain of events that led to the First World War or the way the arrest of political operatives committing burglary at the Watergate Hotel led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. A whole series of very questionable decisions by many people, in many places, over a period of years, built up the pressures that led to a sudden collapse of the housing market and of financial institutions that began to fall like dominoes as a result of investing in securities based on housing prices."

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780465019861
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Publication date: 2/23/2010
  • Edition description: First Trade Paper Edition
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 254,929
  • Product dimensions: 6.38 (w) x 9.28 (h) x 0.69 (d)

Meet the Author

Thomas Sowell has taught economics at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst, and other academic institutions, and his Basic Economics has been translated into six languages. He is currently a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has published in both academic journals and in such popular media as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes magazine, and Fortune, and he writes a syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country.

Table of Contents

Preface v

1 The Economics of the Housing Boom 1

2 The Politics of the Housing Boom 30

3 The Housing Bust 57

4 Housing Mystiques and Housing Mistakes 90

5 The Past and the Future 117

Sources 149

Index 180

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  • Posted May 11, 2012

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    Great Book

    This is a very well written book by the conservative economist Thomas Sowell. That being said, I noticed a little bit of bias in the last two chapters of the book.

    What is worth mentioning, from the last chapter, the author felt it necessary, and justifiably, to compare the New Deal to that of the Great Recession in the last chapter. I felt the author leaned continuosly on the right in his explanation of why Herbert Hoover initiated policies that helped the economy recover from the crash of 1929 and how the New Deal did not really help the economy recover. And when the economy did recover it was because of World War II not completely the New Deal. This drew skepticism.

    I do like the fact that as an economist, he explained the situation clearly, you do not have to take an economics class or be an economist to understand the information from within the book.

    With all the said, even though there was some bias, there is more than enough information within the book that explains the why and how of the situation that will be surely be in the history books.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 6, 2012

    Not the usual "blame the previous administration" here

    Not the usual "blame the previous administration" here. This author goes looking for unintended economic consequences in all his books. Finds some chilling ones for this books conclusion. If you want a different viewpoint, a different opinion from the "liberal press consensus" view, here it is. Don't look for flattering opinions of Chris Dodd or Barney Frank . Apparently they pressed hard to lower credit standards BEFORE the housing collapse. Denied all afterwards. Only one reporter asked then about it and she got the bluster treatment. Don't ask me, READ THE BOOK. I had to put it down several times because I got so upset. Have been unemployed for 2 years and I am 63 years old.

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  • Posted June 26, 2010

    THOMAS SOWELL TEACHES THE READER THAT ACTUAL MEASURED RESULTS MATTER. ELOQUENT LANGUAGE CAN BE MORE PERSUASIVE BUT, ALL TOO OFTEN, MAY HAVE LITTLE TO BACK IT UP.

    Thomas Sowell encourages the reader to evaluate the actual results of adopted governmental policy. He highlights the lack of incentive on the part of politicians to take responsibility for the unanticipated adverse consequences of previously adopted policies. He describes how political incentives lead those in government to incorrectly publicly blame others outside of government, often successfully. This leads to calls for "more regulation," resulting in misplaced expectations that government could, in some way, solve a crisis for which it was responsible, and which it did not have the insight or desire to prevent.

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  • Posted April 8, 2010

    Greed Has No Bounds

    This was an excellent read and I've recommended it to many others. It should be on the MUST reading list for every member of the Senate and Congress. Thomas Sowell clearly defines the path to the housing bust. He meticulously shows who all the players were and the role each played in the build-up of the housing fantasy. It is particularly important to note the role of government in this fiasco. While many want to blame the banks and mortgage companies for bad lending practices, and they were guilty, don't overlook that our government used strong arm tactics to insist that just about any breathing sole who asked for a loan could get one. Take a close look at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the shape they're now in. Mr. Sowell makes a good case for what happens when we stop using common sense and move away from sound lending/business practices.

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