38 EXPLANATIONS FOR THE FINANCIAL CRISIS.

38 EXPLANATIONS FOR THE FINANCIAL CRISIS. I have posted from time to time on how almost everybody failed to predict the financial crisis, although events were happening right in front of them, and on how difficult it is to test macroeconomic relationships. In the Financial Times (September 1) , Howard Davies (director of the London School of Economics) has an article in which he says that in his forthcoming book, THE FINANCIAL CRISIS: WHO IS TO BLAME?, he has catalogued 38 “distinctive theories” of the causes of the financial crisis.