Modern Crises and Crashes
The 1987-to-present record, close enough to read as case studies rather than history.
12 books · 6 people behind it
Start here
- The Big ShortMichael Lewis, 2010
- Too Big to FailAndrew Ross Sorkin, 2009
- When Genius FailedRoger Lowenstein, 2000
The people behind it 6
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Journalists 6
Michael Lewis1 book hereRL
Roger Lowenstein1 book here
Andrew Ross Sorkin1 book hereGT
Gillian Tett1 book here
Bethany McLeannamed in their tagsGZ
Gregory Zuckermannamed in their tagsBooks 12
Roger Lowenstein · 2000 · LTCM: leverage, correlation and the limits of a model.
Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2009 · The definitive hour-by-hour narrative of September 2008.
Michael Lewis · 2010 · The subprime trade from the side of the people who saw it.
T2 Fool's Gold
Gillian Tett · 2009 · How the credit derivatives J.P. Morgan invented escaped their inventors.
David Wessel · 2009 · Bernanke's Fed under fire, reported contemporaneously.
T2 Fault Lines
Raghuram G. Rajan · 2010 · Inequality, global imbalances and credit as substitutes for income.
T2 On the Brink
Henry M. Paulson Jr. · 2010 · Insider memoir: the Treasury Secretary's version of the same weeks.
Alan S. Blinder · 2013 · The clearest economist's account of the crisis and the policy response.
Anat Admati, Martin Hellwig · 2013 · The case that bank equity is cheap and the objections are self-serving.
Atif Mian, Amir Sufi · 2014 · The household-leverage explanation, argued from micro data.
T2 Stress Test
Timothy F. Geithner · 2014 · Insider memoir from the New York Fed and then the Treasury.
Perry Mehrling · 2010 · The central bank as dealer of last resort in a market-based system.