Crashed

How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

Recommended by Duncan Weldon, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #31 in Economic History, Ranked #39 in Macroeconomicssee more rankings.

"An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One of the great strengths of Tooze's book is to demonstrate the deeply intertwined nature of the European and American financial systems." --The New York Times Book Review

From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shockwaves being felt around the world today.


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Duncan Weldon I’ve read Crashed and it’s fantastic (review out next month). This is really useful framing. The financial crisis might seem like an unusual “next book” after Adam’s history of 1916-1931 (The Deluge)- but capital flows sit at the heart of both of them. https://t.co/obS3fTxMPX (Source)


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