TY - BOOK AU - Mian, Atif AU - Sufi, Amir TI - House of debt: How they (and you) caused the great recession, and how we can prevent it from happening again SN - 9780226271651 PY - 2015/// CY - Chicago PB - The University of Chicago Press N2 - The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnessed a dramatic rise in household debt in the years before the recession—that the total amount of debt for American households doubled between 2000 and 2007 to $14 trillion? Definitely not. Armed with clear and powerful evidence, Atif Mian and Amir Sufi reveal in House of Debt how the Great Recession and Great Depression ER -