Adam Tooze
The Forgotten History of the Financial Crisis
What the World Should Have Learned in 2008
Foreign Affairs, 2018
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Read this in-depth yet highly accessible account of “the worst financial crisis in global history.”
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Historian Adam Tooze drills down into the real causes of the global financial crisis in this enlightening chronicle of little-known 2007–2008 events. He convincingly posits that, as the crisis spread across the world at great speed, the quick actions of the US Federal Reserve averted a worldwide financial collapse. getAbstract recommends that analysts, investors and executives read this in-depth yet highly accessible account of what former Fed chair Ben Bernanke called “the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.”
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About the Author
Adam Tooze is a history professor at Columbia University, where he leads the European Institute.
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