Economics in a time of crisis [in no order]

A Listmania! list by Paul Bowes (Wales, United Kingdom)
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Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
1.  Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance by Nouriel Roubini
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  "Historically informed analysis by the only economist to have predicted the crisis in detail"
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Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
2.  Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram G. Rajan
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  "Searching analysis by former Chief Economist of the IMF"
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Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (New in Paper)
3.  Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (New in Paper) by George A. Akerlof
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  "Why the 'rational market' model doesn't work"
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Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (A John Hope Franklin Center Book)
4.  Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (A John Hope Franklin Center Book) by Karen Zouwen Ho
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  "A social anthropologist anatomises Wall Street's culture, recruiting practices and mindset"
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Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us
5.  Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us by John Quiggin
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  "Persistent myths of market liberalism debunked"
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23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
6.  23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
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  "Merciless dissection of neo-liberal economic truisms"
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How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
7.  How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy
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  "Detailed refutation of market-fundamentalist economic principles"
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Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe
8.  Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe by Gillian Tett
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  "Excellent account of the creation of the financial 'weapons of mass destruction' from the award-winning FT journalist"
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
9.  The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
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  "Superb, thriller-like account of how the financial gamblers understood the situation better than the experts"
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The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton: What Fresh Hell Is This?
10.  The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton: What Fresh Hell Is This? by Tyler Cowen
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  "Takes the argument further into an analysis of the likely future for a stagnating West"
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Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life
11.  Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life by Emanuel Derman
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  "A famous quant and former physicist explains why financial models lack real authority"
£11.04   Used & New from: £8.00
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