The Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can't) Do about It (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300234817)

A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to fail

Finance plays a key role in the prosperity of the modern world, but it also brings grave dangers. We seek to manage those threats with a vast array of sophisticated mathematical tools and techniques of financial risk management. Too often, though, we fail to address the greatest risk--the peril posed by our own behavior.

J Dan冾lsson argues that critical risk is generated from within, through the interactions of individuals and perpetuated by their beliefs, objectives, abilities, and prejudices. He asserts that the widespread belief that risk originates outside the financial system frustrates our ability to measure and manage it, and the likely consequences of new regulations will help alleviate small-scale risks but, perversely, encourage excessive risk taking. Dan冾lsson uses lessons from past and recent crises to show that diversity is the best way to safeguard our financial system.

Author: Jon Danielsson
ISBN-10: 0300234813
ISBN-13: 9780300234817
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2022
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.43h x 6.41w x 1.00d