13 bankers : the Wall Street takeover and the next financial meltdown /

Johnson, Simon, 1963-

13 bankers : the Wall Street takeover and the next financial meltdown / Thirteen bankers Simon Johnson, James Kwak. - First Vintage Books edition. - New York : Vintage Books, 2011. - 316 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, c2010. "With a new epilogue"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-290) and index.

Introduction: 13 bankers -- Thomas Jefferson and the financial aristocracy -- Other people's oligarchs -- Wall Street rising : 1980- -- "Greed is good" : the takeover -- The best deal ever -- Too big to fail -- The American oligarchy : six banks.

Provides historical context for the 2008 financial crisis and proposes a radical solution, the megabanks deemed "too big to fail" must be made smaller.--

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