Book List (not exhaustive)

A partial and non-exhaustive list of books on financial and economic crisis that you might choose to read and write about for later in the course [reposted and updated from 2009 & 2012].

Ahamed, Liaquat. Lords of Finance: The Bankers who Broke the World.

Akerlof, George & Robert Shiller. Animal Spirits.

Bagus, Philip. Tragedy of the Euro.

Bernanke, Ben. Essays on the Great Depression.

Blinder, Alan. After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead

Cooper, George. The Origin of Financial Crises.

Eichengreen, Barry. Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System

Fox, Justin. The Myth of the Rational Market

Friedman, Milton. The Great Contraction, 1929-1933.

Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash of 1929.

Gorton, Gary. Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don't See Them Coming

Irwin, Neil. The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and the World on Fire

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

Lewis, Michael. Flash Boys

Lewis, Michael. Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity

Lynn, Matthew. Bust: Greece, The Euro, and the Sovereign Debt Crisis

Marsh, David. The Euro: The Battle for the New Global Currency

Minsky, Hyman. Can 'It' Happen Again? Essays on Instability and Finance

Minsky, Hyman. Stabilizing an Unstable Economy

Morris, Charles. The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown

Onaran, Yalman. Zombie Banks: How Broken Banks and Debtor Nations are Crippling the Global Economy

Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Reinhart, Carmen and Kenneth Rogoff. This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

Shiller, Robert. The Subprime Solution

Sorkin, Andrew Ross. Too Big to Fail

Stiglitz, Joseph. The Price of Inequality

van Overtveldt, Johan. The End of the Euro: The Uneasy Future of the European Union

Wapshot, Nicholas. Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics

Wessel, David. In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic

Wolf, Martin. Fixing Global Finance

Wolf, Martin. The Shifts and the Shocks

Zandi, Mark. Financial Shock