Books by Jeffrey Friedman

This is an excellent conceptual book on the financial crisis, full of deep research and intellectual honesty.  The authors, Jeffrey Friedman and Wladimir Kraus, are not in the usual loops of the economist elite, so I hope it is not ignored.  They place central importance on the Basel capital regulations and mark-to-market accounting, complemented by a credit channel, in their narrative.  Arnold Kling has much more on the book .  You can buy the book here ; anyone interested in the financial cris...

4. Jeffrey Friedman, editor, What Caused the Financial Crisis .  Of all the books on the crisis, this one is arguably the most conceptual.  The authors of the essays include Stiglitz, John Taylor, Acemoglu, and Richard Posner.