Crashed cover art

Crashed

How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Crashed

By: Adam Tooze
Narrated by: Simon Vance, Adam Tooze
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £16.99

Buy Now for £16.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Crashed by Adam Tooze, read by Simon Vance, with an introduction read by the author.

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.

 Banks & Banking Economic History Economics International Banking Taxation Inspiring Business Capitalism Socialism Global Financial Crisis Great Recession US Economy Government Latin American Liberalism

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Wages of Destruction cover art
Austerity cover art
Putinomics cover art
University of Berkshire Hathaway cover art
Against the Grain cover art
Collapse cover art
Failed cover art
Stress Test cover art
Debt - Updated and Expanded cover art
All the Devils Are Here cover art
Crisis Economics cover art
The Housing Boom and Bust cover art
End The Fed cover art
EuroTragedy cover art
All the Presidents' Bankers cover art
Permanent Distortion cover art
All stars
Most relevant
This overview of past economic crises provides insight into the potential impact of the flip-flop chaos of the contemporary Trump administration’s policies.
Strong start, sluggish middle, strong finish. Excellent book.

Essential for Understanding Trump’s Chaotic Economics

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A great book that provides a good overview of the past decade. I really enjoyed it.

Good book.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Tooze does a jaw dropping job of sewing together the last decade of financial and political instability and change.

Fascinating

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The detailed, but readable book, equally suitable for scholars and casual readership, truly masterpiece. Simon Vance superbly narrates the audiobook.

I'm not qualified, but my humble opinion is that more emphasis on the true origins of the growth of the financial sector’s balance sheets, the global savings glut, would be welcomed. I would, therefore, recommend ’The Shifts and the Shocks’ by Martin Wolf as an accompanying book (hardcover, paperback or MP3 CD – audiobook). Read this two books, and you will know (almost) everything about topics.

'Crashed' is a must-read or listen. I have combined a fantastic combo of the hardcover book and audiobook because I still learn the English language. Match made in the heavens.

Masterpiece

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Very informative but points out things that you tend to forget like the rise of nationalism and the sketchy workings of the worlds powers.

Depressing look at a rigged system

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews