Crashed
Adam Tooze
<br>In September 2008 President George Bush could still describe the financial crisis as an incident local to Wall Street. In fact it was a dramatic caesura of global significance that spiraled around the world, from the financial markets of the UK and Europe to the factories and dockyards of Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, forcing a rearrangement of global governance. In the United States and Europe, it caused a fundamental reconsideration of capitalist democracy, eventually leading to the war in the Ukraine, the chaos of Greece, Brexit, and Trump. <br>It was the greatest crisis to have struck Western societies since the end of the Cold War, but was it inevitable? And is it over? <i>Crashed</i> is a dramatic new narrative resting on original themes:...