A New York Times Notable Book of 2018. Winner of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize
'Majestic, informative and often delightful ... insights on every page' Yanis Varoufakis, Observer
The definitive history of the Great Financial Crisis, from the acclaimed author of The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction.
In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehman brothers, shook the world. A decade later its spectre still haunts us. As the appalling scope and scale of the crash was revealed, the financial institutions that had symbolised the West's triumph since the end of the Cold War, seemed - through greed, malice and incompetence - to be about to bring the entire system to its knees.
Crashed is a brilliantly original and assured analysis of what happened and how we were rescued from something even worse - but at a price which continues to undermine democracy across Europe and the United States. Gnawing away at our institutions are the many billions of dollars which were conjured up to prevent complete collapse. Over and over again, the end of the crisis has been announced, but it continues to hound us - whether in Greece or Ukraine, whether through Brexit or Trump. Adam Tooze follows the trail like no previous writer and has written a book compelling as history, as economic analysis and as political horror story.
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Adam Tooze is the author of the highly praised Crashed, The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction, all published by Allen Lane. He has been the recipient of the Wolfson Prize for History, the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Tooze has taught at Cambridge and Yale and is now Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University.
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1st, reprint ed. Hardback thick octavo, dustjacket, as new condition (in as new dustjacket), minimal edgewear. 706 pp. The definitive story by Adam Tooze of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), with a focus on the economic aftermath that still haunts our lives. In September 2008 the GFC, triggered by the collapse of Lehman brothers, shook the world. As the appalling scope and scale of the crash was revealed, the financial institutions that symbolised the West's triumph since the end of the Cold War, seemed - through greed, malice and incompetence - to be bringing the entire capitalist system to its knees. A brilliantly original analysis of what happened, and how we were rescued from a worse fate - but at a price that continues to undermine democracy across the United States and Europe. Gnawing away at our institutions are the many billions of dollars which were conjured up to prevent complete collapse. The end of the crisis has been often announced, but it continues to hound us - whether in Greece or Ukraine, whether through Brexit or Trump. The author provides a compelling history, economic analysis and political horror story. The author is a leading British-American history at Columbia University. (This copy: First edition hardback, 3rd printing.). Seller Inventory # 18579
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