The Cost of Capitalism: Understanding Market Mayhem and Stabilizing Our Economic Future

Chapter 1. The Postcrisis Case for a New Paradigm; Part I Financial Markets and Monetary Policy in Perspective ; Chapter 2. The Markets Stoke the Boom and Bust Cycle; Chapter 3. The ABCs of Risky Finance; Chapter 4. Financial Markets as a Source of Instability; Chapter 5. Free Market Capitalism: Still the Superior Strategy; Chapter 6. Monetary Policy: Not the Wrong Men, the Wrong Model; Part II Economic Experience: 1985-2002 ; Chapter 7. How Financial Instability Emerged in the 1980s; Chapter 8. Financial Mayhem in Asia: Japan's Implosion and the Asian Contagion; Chapter 9. The Brave-New-World Boom Goes Bust: The 1990s Technology Bubble; Part III Emerging Realities: 2007-2008 ; Chapter 10. Greenspan's Conundrum Fosters the Housing Bubble; Chapter 11. Bernanke's Calamity and the Onset of U.S. Recession; Chapter 12. Domino Defaults, Global Markets Crisis, and End of the Great Moderation; Part IV Recasting Economic Theory for the Twenty-First Century ; Chapter 13. Economic Orthodoxyon the Eve of the Crisis; Chapter 14. Minsky and Monetary Policy; Chapter 15. One Practitioner's Professional Journey; Chapter 16. Global Policy Risks in the Aftermath of the 2008 Crisis

Dr. Robert J. Barbera is executive vice president and chief economist at ITG. Dr. Barbera has spent the last 26 years as a Wall Street economist, earning a wide institutional following. He serves as a Fellow in the Economics Department of the Johns Hopkins University, where has taught applied macroeconomics for five years. Early in his career, Dr. Barbera served as a staff economist for U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas and as an economist for the Congressional Budget Office.