Cato Journal: Winter 2009 | Cato Institute

Lessons from the Financial Crisis

Articles

Editor’s Note

By James A. Dorn

Bailout or Bankruptcy?

By Jeffrey Miron

Origins of the Financial Market Crisis of 2008

By Anna. J. Schwartz

Reflections on the Financial Crisis

By Allan H. Meltzer

Monetary Policy and Asset Prices Revisited

By Donald L. Kohn

Asset Prices and Monetary Policy

By Otmar Issing

What Lessons Can We Learn from the Boom and Turmoil?

By Jeffrey M. Lacker

Financial Innovation, Regulation, and Reform

By Charles Calomiris

Bad Rules Produce Bad Outcomes: Underlying Public‐Policy Causes of the U.S. Financial Crisis

By Bert Ely

Federal Reserve Policy and the Housing Bubble

By Lawrence H. White

The Case for Policy Sustainability

By Wolfgang Munchau

Moral Hazard in the Policy Response to the 2008 Financial Market Meltdown

By Andrew A. Samwick

Moral Hazard and the Financial Crisis

By Kevin Dowd

Money and the Present Crisis

By Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr.

Interest‐Rate Targeting during the Great Moderation: A Reappraisal

By Roger W. Garrison

The Way Forward: Incentives, Not Regulations

By William Poole

Book Review

After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy by Christopher J. Coyne

By Gregory M. Dempster

Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy; Book 1 of Political Capitalism (A Trilogy) by Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

By Richard L. Gordon (1934-2014)

On the Contrary: Leading the Opposition in a Democratic South Africa by Tony Leon

By Marian L. Tupy