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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The United States mortgage sector was a fragile house of cards set to collapse.
Chapter 3: Europe’s financial crisis was a direct result of the United States crash.
Chapter 4: The Eurozone couldn’t replicate the United States’ effective crisis response strategy.
Chapter 5: A lack of European unity meant smaller countries couldn’t manage the consequences of the 2008 financial crash alone.
Chapter 6: Russia leveraged the former Eastern Bloc’s economic weakness, setting it in opposition to the West.
Chapter 7: After the crash, London lost its status as a global trading hub.
Chapter 8: The Brexit vote was first intended to pressure the EU to safeguard London’s status as an offshore financial hub.
Chapter 9: Furious American voters deserted the political center in the aftermath of the financial crash.
Chapter 10: Anger over the unequal split of pain and profit in post-crash America spilled into the ballot box nationwide.
Description
Crashed (2018) unpacks the metaphorical seismograph to take the measure of an economic earthquake whose tremors can still be felt today – the 2008 financial crisis. Written with an eye to the global effects of what’s now known as the “Great Recession,” Adam Tooze traces the crash’s shockwaves from their epicenter in the American financial markets to their conclusions in Crimea, London, Athens and other geopolitical hotspots.
Who Should Listen
- Economists, policymakers and anyone in financial trading
- History buffs fascinated by the links between economics and politics
- Disgruntled citizens wondering how politicians and bankers landed us in such a mess