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Crashed

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

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.

©2018 Adam Tooze (P)2018 Penguin Audio

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A must read for understanding the world today

Dealing first with the financial crisis of 2008 (the build-up to the crisis and the response of policy makers) and then the European sovereign debt crisis of 2010 - 2012, Adam Tooze has written as good an analysis as anything I've seen from strictly economic commentators. It helps enormously that he writes so well.
The book though is far more than an history of the financial shenanigans of Wall Street and the City of London, or the various policy responses of the Fed, BofE and ECB. At its heart the book deals with the question of how modern democratic politics interacts with the hugely complex, interconnected macro-financial system, as he labels it. Judged by the response of the GOP and the Conservative Party in Britain, parties that traditionally placed themselves as mediating this relationship, the signs are far from encouraging.

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Great History of the Crash and it's Effects

Excellent history of the Crash & how the banks responded. My only criticism is it presents a somewhat sympathetic account to those in power making the decisions at the time. Where it could have been better is in outlining a more progressive alternative than the one demanded by the EU / global finance since 2008 - to better contextualise the failings of govts to prioritise the prosperity of its people over the continuation of an inequitable system on life support - fuelled by unsustainable debt / credit bubbles.

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A history of what we lived through

So much to absorb. I can't recommend this more highly. Am now going to read his book on finance of Corona virus 'Lockdown' when it comes out.

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Very Technical

This is not an easy listen, but interesting. Not being from an economics or financial background I had to persevere with it.

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Illuminating!

Enjoyed having the author read the introduction. The rest of the book was very well read by Simon Vance. So much happened during this time, it has amazed me quite how many elements I did not even know about. The description of the various market mechanisms can be quite technical, I don't think audio books particularly lend themselves to this aspect. But on the other hand the narrative to the various dramas were brought alive very effectively by the narrator.

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Masterpiece

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.

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A very good (if perhaps too detailed) analysis

A comprehensive, thorough and fascinating analysis of the events of the 2008 crash and its aftermath. As a layman, I found some of the economic fine detail hard to master, not helped I think by listening to the audiobook version, where it's less easy to go back and review bits of what you've just heard to ensure you've understood it.

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Stunning - a thriller about the world economy

Utterly gripping story of a period we all lived through without even the slightest sense of the real drama that was playing out on the trading floors and in the cabinet offices and boardrooms of the great powers.

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Exceptional!

I don't often have much to say in my reviews but this book deserves rather more than a word or two. It very clearly illustrates the financial interdepence of global marekts and explains why the events of 2008 were a culmination of years of bad decisions informed by political ideology rather than sound reason; And why the decisions that followed often served to illustrate how adequate lessons were not learned in regard to those motivations.. Greed and national interests still rule in a world where our dependence on each other has never been so great.

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So much information

I don’t know how Tooze wrote this. So much information and interlinked events. I would have liked it to be read by him but the narration is perfectly fine.

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