The first book is The Shifts and the Shocks, by the conservative British journalist Martin Wolf, who begins by cataloguing the major shifts that set the stage for the economic disaster that continues to shape the world today. His starting point is the huge rise in wealth among the world’s richest 0.1% and 0.01% and the consequent pressure for people, governments, and companies to take on increasingly unsustainable levels of debt.
第一本书是《变化和冲击》（The Shifts and the Shocks），作者是保守派英国记者马丁·沃尔夫（Martin Wolf）。在书的开头，他对酝酿了至今仍在影响世界的这场经济灾难的重要变化做了归纳编目。首先，他指出世界最富有的0.1%和0.01%人群财富剧增，这给人民、政府和公司造成了日益不可持续的高负债的压力。