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Epstein, Gerald. Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us

Robert F. Bruner

University of Virginia

Journal of Economic Literature 2025

Robert F. Bruner of University of Virginia reviews “Busting the Bankers' Club: Finance for the Rest of Us” by Gerald Epstein. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Considers the financial crisis of 2007-09 and the financial reform response, promoting the argument that the source of both the intensity of the crisis and the weakness of the response was the power of a collection of big financial institutions and their supporters that acquired a huge amount of political power.”

DOI
10.1257/jel.63.3.1090.r3
Volume
63 (3)
Pages
1094-1098
Language
en
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