False Profits

Praise for False Profits

“What caused the Great Crisis? Who was responsible? How bad is it? What should we do now? In False Profits, Dean Baker blows away smokescreens and names the real culprits. Along the way, he hands up an indictment of economists—in government and academia—who for years could not see what was in front of their noses.”

—James K. Galbraith, author of The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

“Dean Baker’s False Profits is simply the best succinct explanation of the causes, cures, dynamics, and politics of the financial crisis—an indispensable book.”

—Robert Kuttner, co-editor, The American Prospect

“Dean Baker has an incredible ability to simplify the complex and distill ...