Robert Solow reviews How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy. A review of The Cost of Capitalism: Understanding Market Mayhem and Stabilizing our Economic Future by Robert Barbera. From Soundings, a series of papers on the credit crunch. From TAP, a review essay on the financial crisis. A look at how the Fed's approach to regulation left banks exposed to crisis. The Big Bank Theory: Dean Baker on how government helps financial giants get richer. An excerpt from Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable by Mark Gilbert. What caused the economic crisis? Jacob Weisberg on the 15 best explanations for the Great Recession. Jeremy Bernstein on Paul Samuelson and the obscure origins of the financial crisis. From Vanity Fair, one of the biggest disconnects on Wall

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