![]() This is truly contemporary historythe book runs right up to the end of 2017. Adam Tooze follows the trail like no previous writer and has written a book compelling as history, as economic analysis and as political horror story. Few are likely to match Adam Tooze’s Crashed in scope, ambition or rigour. Over and over again, the end of the crisis has been announced, but it continues to hound us - whether in Greece or Ukraine, whether through Brexit or Trump. ![]() Gnawing away at our institutions are the many billions of dollars which were conjured up to prevent complete collapse. 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.Ĭrashed 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. Adam Tooze is a professor of history at Columbia University and the author of Crashed, winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize, a New York Times Notable Book of. ![]() ![]() A decade later its spectre still haunts us. In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehman brothers, shook the world. ![]()
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