Preludes to the Icelandic Financial Crisis
Robert Z. Aliber, Gylfi Zoega
Palgrave Macmillan
Iceland became one of the symbols of the global financial crisis. It provides an ideal test case for the perceptions of economists, in particular their ability to anticipate crises. The book contains papers and reports, written prior to the collapse of Iceland's financial system, about the economy. What did and didn't they see coming, and why?