13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown

By Simon Johnson and James Kwak

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In 13 Bankers, Simon Johnson - one of the most prominent and frequently cited economist in America (former chief economist of the international Monetary Fund, professor of entrepreneurship at MIT, and author of the controversial "The Coup" in the Atlantic)- and James Kwak give a wide-ranging, meticulous and bracing account of recent U.S. financial history within the context of previous showdowns between American democracy and Big Finance: From Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Jackson, from Theodore Roosevelt to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They convincingly show why our future is imperiled by the ideology of finance and by Wall Street’s political control of government policy pertaining to it.

Additional Information: Pantheon, 2010 (Hardcover)