AIG
Companiesinsurance
The insurer whose London derivatives unit required a $182bn rescue; there is no single canonical book, and crisis-wide accounts carry much of the story.
7 books · 5 people behind it
Start here
- Too Big to FailAndrew Ross Sorkin, 2009
- Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate SuicideRoddy Boyd, 2011
- All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial CrisisBethany McLean, Joe Nocera, 2010
The people behind it 5
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Academics 1
Journalists 4
Andrew Ross Sorkin1 book here
Bethany McLean1 book hereLA
Lawrence A. Cunningham1 book hereRL
Roger Lowensteinnamed in their tagsBooks 7
Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2009 · Crisis-wide narrative in which the AIG rescue is the central set piece.
Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera · 2010 · Traces AIG Financial Products' swap book back to its origins.
Roddy Boyd · 2011 · The fullest dedicated account of AIG Financial Products.
Timothy F. Geithner · 2014 · Insider account by the New York Fed president who ran the $182bn rescue.
Ron Shelp, Al Ehrbar · 2006 · Pre-crisis; by a former AIG executive.
Nicholas Dunbar · 2011 · How the swaps trade worked and why AIG sold it; Open Library unreachable.
Maurice R. Greenberg, Lawrence A. Cunningham · 2013 · Insider: the ousted CEO's defense of the firm he built.