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Offers persuasive research to show that the almost universally accepted narrative of market failure - broadly similar across financial crises - is formulated by political actors hoping to deflect blame from prior policy errors. It shows that lax regulation was not a substantial cause of the financial problems of the Great Depression.

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"Mahoney casts the foundational securities laws of the New Deal in a completely different light, going behind the assertions of contemporary commentators and providing compelling evidence that we ought to question their accuracy. This is a truly important book and a timely addition of a powerful contrarian view to today's policy discussions that tend to have a one-sided focus on the need for expanded regulation without regard to whether there is any supporting evidence for proposed policies." (Roberta Romano, Yale Law School)

Wasting a Crisis

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 23 March 2015
      ISBN-13 9780226236513
      978-0226236513
      ISBN-10 022623651X
      Also in:
      Capital markets and securities law and regulation Constitutional and administrative law: general Legal history

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers persuasive research to show that the almost universally accepted narrative of market failure - broadly similar across financial crises - is formulated by political actors hoping to deflect blame from prior policy errors. It shows that lax regulation was not a substantial cause of the financial problems of the Great Depression.

      Trade Review
      "Mahoney casts the foundational securities laws of the New Deal in a completely different light, going behind the assertions of contemporary commentators and providing compelling evidence that we ought to question their accuracy. This is a truly important book and a timely addition of a powerful contrarian view to today's policy discussions that tend to have a one-sided focus on the need for expanded regulation without regard to whether there is any supporting evidence for proposed policies." (Roberta Romano, Yale Law School)

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