This is a non-exhaustive list of books on financial and economic crisis that you might choose to read and write about for Week 7.
Ahamed, Liaquat. Lords of Finance: The Bankers who Broke the World.
Akerlof, George & Robert Shiller. Animal Spirits.
Bernanke, Ben. Essays on the Great Depression.
Cooper, George. The Origin of Financial Crises.
Fox, Justin. The Myth of the Rational Market
Friedman, Milton. The Great Contraction, 1929-1933.
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash of 1929.
James, Harold. The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle
James, Harold. The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression.
Keynes, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.
Kindleberger, Charles. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises.
Kindleberger, Charles. The World in Depression, 1929-1939.
Krugman, Paul. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008.
Lewis, Michael. Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity.
Minsky, Hyman. Can 'It' Happen Again? Essays on Instability and Finance
Minsky, Hyman. Stabilizing an Unstable Economy.
Morris, Charles. The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown.
Reinhart, Carmen and Kenneth Rogoff. This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly.
Shiller, Robert. The Subprime Solution.
Wessel, David. In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic.
Wolf, Martin. Fixing Global Finance.
Zandi, Mark. Financial Shock.