具体描述
From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shockwaves being felt around the world today.
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.
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? Crashed is a dramatic new narrative resting on original themes: the haphazard nature of economic development and the erratic path of debt around the world; the unseen way individual countries and regions are linked together in deeply unequal relationships through financial interdependence, investment, politics, and force; the ways the financial crisis interacted with the spectacular rise of social media, the crisis of middle-class America, the rise of China, and global struggles over fossil fuels.
Finally, Tooze asks, given this history, what now are the prospects for a liberal, stable, and coherent world order?
用户评价
##可以说是史诗 - for anyone who hopes to understand how we got here since 2008.
##one of the best researched and written books I've ever came across. Linking all major events mapping a global view with meaningful details. How did we end up here, how is one thing connected to another, what does everything mean, and where are we going? big questions well addressed with solid data and sound arguments
##one of the best researched and written books I've ever came across. Linking all major events mapping a global view with meaningful details. How did we end up here, how is one thing connected to another, what does everything mean, and where are we going? big questions well addressed with solid data and sound arguments
##过去十年最好的历史书之一吧
##Read Intro, and chapters 1, 6, 7, 10. Not a big fan of 2008 financial crisis though. Chris
##兰小欢推荐: 今年是政经类书籍的大年，好书太多了。我的年度图书就是这本大部头。最近十年全世界的政经画卷全面展开，一环套一环，政治引着资本，金融包着外交，一浪接着一浪，层层叠叠。暑假看完的，目前在看第二遍，依然精彩绝伦，细节太多了，第二次读又出来很多新意。
##当代史诗
##one of the best researched and written books I've ever came across. Linking all major events mapping a global view with meaningful details. How did we end up here, how is one thing connected to another, what does everything mean, and where are we going? big questions well addressed with solid data and sound arguments
##08年美国金融危机之后发生了许多国际大事：比如特朗普当选美国总统、乌克兰冲突、希腊主权危机为开端的欧债危机、英国脱欧、全球民粹主义兴起等。本书结合了08年以后全球经济、政治、地缘政治探讨了世界经济的运行机制。宏观经济学建立在凯恩斯对民族国家、国家生产体系和它们之间贸易不平衡上。但如今全球化经济让凯恩斯经济学在解释08年以后事件显得不足：推动国际贸易的不再是国家经济体之间的关系，而是协调广泛的“价值链”的大型跨国企业。货币、信贷和金融机构是由政治权力、社会惯例和法律构成的。现代银行系统的脆弱性根源：它是全球性的，又是基于美元的，这意味着美联储的货币政策是全球性的，但是美联储只对美国负责。金融危机看似宏观经济问题，但实际上是传统货币政策工具的危机，同样也是现代政治危机。