TY - BOOK AU - Lewitt,Michael E. TI - The death of capital: how creative policy can restore stability T2 - Wiley Global Finance Executive Select SN - 9780470621165 AV - HB501 .L4125 2010eb U1 - 332/.041 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Hoboken, N.J. PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - Capital KW - Capitalism KW - United States KW - Finance KW - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 KW - Crise financière mondiale, 2008-2009 KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic book N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: the 2008 crisis : tragedy or farce? -- The death of capital -- Capital ideas -- Empty promises -- Financialization -- From innovators to undertakers -- Welcome to Jurassic Park -- The road to hell -- Finance after Armageddon -- Conclusion: "This is later." N2 - In The Death of Capital, respected portfolio manager and longtime investment professional Michael Lewitt looks at how the U.S. economy has increasingly been dominated by short-term speculation rather than industrial expansion in recent years. These disastrous trends, described here as financialization, ignore the fact that capital itself is a highly unstable process rather than a fixed object or category. As a result of our failure to understand the true nature of capital, we have developed a financial and regulatory system that does exactly the opposite of what it should be doing UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=319455 ER -