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Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it’s tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In “Fault Lines”, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren’t fixed. Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown – made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary home-owners – were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose. He traces the deepening fault lines in a world overly dependent on the indebted American consumer to power global economic growth and stave off global downturns. He exposes a system where America’s growing inequality and thin social safety net create tremendous political pressure to encourage easy credit and keep job creation robust, no matter what the consequences to the economy’s long-term health; and where the U.S. financial sector, with its skewed incentives, is the critical but unstable link between an overstimulated America and an under consuming world. In “Fault Lines”, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right. He outlines the hard choices we need to make to ensure a more stable world economy and restore lasting prosperity.
作者简介:
拉古拉迈·拉詹，麻省理工学院博士，芝加哥大学商学院金融学终身教授。2003年9月出任国际货币基金组织首席经济学家。他是美国艺术和科学学院院士，并在2003年获得了美国金融协会颁发的费舍尔·布莱克奖，该奖只颁予40岁以下最优秀的金融经济学家。
事实上，作为国际货币基金组织的首席经济学家，拉詹在2007年就对全球顶级银行家发出严正警告：金融市场即将步入厄运。可惜的是，这个警告导致的唯一结果是，拉詹被命名为“厄运预言博士”——他成了金融界的笑柄。直到2008年金融危机爆发。2010年5月，拉詹把自己的预言写成了一本书：名叫《断层线》，顿时风靡全球。
原文摘录:
经济评论家们常被人们戏谑地称为卡珊德拉或“永远的悲观论者”，因为他们总是预言经济下滑，所以不管怎样他们的预测最终都是对的，这就好像一座停了的钟，一天中也总有两次所指的时间是对的。 (查看原文)
灵魂独行
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2015-10-29 10:27:22
—— 引自章节：序言
在过去的10年中，银行所承担的风险逐步加大了。这着实令人吃惊，如果银行通过出售债券将高风险贷款从资产负债表中转移出去的话，银行的安全性应该提高才对。最终我才想通，原来我犯了经济学家们最大的一个通病，我假设其他条件不变，也就是说我假设除我所要研究的证券化这一现象以外的其他条件都是不变的。而通常来讲，万事万物都是在不断变化的。更重要的是，放宽管制以及证券化的发展加剧了金融市场的竞争，从而使银行家们开始追逐更加复杂的风险形式。 (查看原文)
灵魂独行
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2015-10-29 10:27:22
—— 引自章节：序言