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Crashed : how a decade of financial crises changed the world / Adam Tooze.

By: Tooze, J. Adam [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: UK : Allen Lane, 2018Description: xii, 706 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781846140365 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Financial crises -- History -- 21st century | Financial crises -- Social aspects | Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | Industry | IndustryDDC classification: 338.5'42'09051 Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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