Books about the crisis and related
Меня на работе попросили написать список книг, которые я прочитала по теме, так что пощу тут по совместительству. Пишите ваши "любимые", если я пропустила и ваши мнения по поводу этих книжек. Для бук клуба они не подходят, разве что новый организовать, по интересам ;)
- Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
by Lewis - geopolitics, about the crisis in Iceland, Ireland, Greece, Germany, and finally the US, 5 star, this is the one I’d recommend most, and pretty much the only book I've read focusing on other countries - The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Lewis - the most popular book about the hedge funds that “got it right” by betting against the mortgage market, 5 star - On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
by Paulson - Paulson’s (then, treasury secretary) account of what happened, 5 star for the interest of the inside look - Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon by Morgenson, Rosner - about role of regulators and how they were bought, especially by Fannie Mae, 4 star
- The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
by Tyler - short and sweet, with a couple interesting thoughts on why the US has passed the explosive exponential growth part of the economic curve (I disagree with this premise, but the ideas are still interesting), 4 stars - This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
by Reinhart and Rogoff - historical account of financial crises over the past 6 centuries from great professors; a bit hard to read, though, 3 star - Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
by Cohan - about Goldman Sachs; interesting from a historical perspective, especially in how Goldman has been thoroughly involved in government and financial regulatory systems in the US from their (regulatory systems') start in 1914, 3 star - Fooling Some of the People All of the Time
by Einhorn - not really about the crisis, but rather a detailed account of how an activist hedge fund works, 3 star
