Sunday, January 27, 2013

How I Wish this Book Existed

There already exist many books about the financial crisis and Great Recession, but not the one I am most dying to read. Imagine this: a book about the crisis and recession written each chapter written by a different  top female macro or financial economist. Here is my dream chapter line-up.

Chapter 1: Signs of Impending Crisis, Janet Yellen

Chapter 2: International Integration, Contagion, and Domestic Vulnerability, Graciela Kaminsky

Chapter 3: Bank Competition and Systemic Stability, Asli Demirguc-Kunt

Chapter 4: Minding Our Money: Financial Literacy and the Crisis, Olivia Mitchell

Chapter 5: Unconventional Monetary Policy in Exceptional Times, Lucrezia Reichlin

Chapter 6: Quantitative Easing and Portfolio Choice, Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

Chapter 7: Evaluating TARP, Loretta Mester

Chapter 8: Public and Private Spending, Valerie Ramey

Chapter 9: Inventories and the Delayed Recovery, Martha Olney

Chapter 10: Beyond Unemployment Rates: The Great Recession and Material Hardship, Janet Currie

Afterword: Policy and the Power of Ideas, Christina Romer

What do you think? Would other people be excited to read this too? What chapters and authors am I missing?

5 comments:

  1. How about the collective of mothers who balance home finances world wide. They are the most capable micro economists of all!

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  2. Carmen Reinhart has kinda already written the book!

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  3. @Lakefront Rider, Amen!

    @Anonymous, I have read Prof. Reinhart's book, and it's certainly an important contribution, but I am pointing out some other sides to the story that I think are relevant.

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  4. You missed out a chapter on the housing /mortgage market, which is rather important tithe story. She's not famous, but at least one female economist has written on this. (http://www.bis.org/publ/work259.pdf). Google reveals she is now head of financial stability at the Reserve Bank of Australia.

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  5. Tithe -> to the
    Damn you autocorrect

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