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Crashed

How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

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Crashed

By: Adam Tooze
Narrated by: Simon Vance, Adam Tooze
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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
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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

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Tooze does a jaw dropping job of sewing together the last decade of financial and political instability and change.

Fascinating

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A great book that provides a good overview of the past decade. I really enjoyed it.

Good book.

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interesting and informative but lots to take in and certainly written for people who know more about economics than I do.

interesting and informative

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Fantastic from start to finish. Great detail and background. Great at linking the different crashes.

How we got through those crashes.

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