This case presents excerpts from the observers of the financial crisis in 2008, including current and former central bankers, private bankers, and winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. They represent different interpretations of the causes of the financial crisis, and to make proposals on how such a crisis can be stopped in the future. The purpose of the case, to provide students with alternative perspectives and extensive historical data, so they can assess how the causes and responses to the crisis. "Hide
by Gunnar Trumbull Source: Harvard Business School 13 pages. Publication Date: December 16, 2008. Prod. #: 709036-PDF-ENG