Iceland
A fishing economy that turned three banks into a hedge fund ten times the size of its GDP and then let them fail. Small literature, but three of the books are genuinely good.
9 books · 1 people behind it
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- BoomerangMichael Lewis, 2011
- Meltdown IcelandRoger Boyes, 2009
- The Icelandic Financial CrisisAsgeir Jonsson, Hersir Sigurgeirsson, 2016
The people behind it 1
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Journalists 1
Books 9
T1 Boomerang
Michael Lewis · 2011 · The Iceland chapter: fishermen turned currency traders, and the carry trade that funded it.
Asgeir Jonsson, Hersir Sigurgeirsson · 2016 · The fullest technical account of the collapse and the capital-controls recovery.
Roger Boyes · 2009 · Contemporaneous reporting on the collapse and the Icesave dispute.
T3 Why Iceland?
Ásgeir Jónsson · 2009 · By Kaupthing's former chief economist; insider view of the funding model that failed.
Gudrun Johnsen · 2014 · By an investigator on the Special Investigation Commission; connected lending and cross-ownership.
Eirikur Bergmann · 2014 · Political economy of the boom, the Icesave dispute and the aftermath.
Jared Bibler · 2021 · Insider account by the investigator who built the market-manipulation cases.
T4 Deep Freeze
Philipp Bagus, David Howden · 2011 · Austrian-school reading of the credit boom and currency mismatch.
Valur Ingimundarson, Philippe Urfalino, Irma Erlingsdottir · 2016 · Academic collection on blame, protest and institutional reconstruction after 2008.