"Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Fun and Profit" is a classic article that critiques traditional behavioral models of economics.
If you're a bank or savings-and-loan, get your deposits insured, gamble the deposits in an unsustainable boom and bust cycle, take the profits, declare bankruptcy, wipe out the deposits, and make the Federal government pay for the lost deposits.
Inspired by the late eighties savings-and-loan debacle and real estate boom and bust cycle in Texas, and perhaps a sign of things to come.
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