Finanskriser
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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
161 kr
A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2025NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 IN THE Financial Times, Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, TIME, Washington Post and The New York Times'Superb... brings the great drama to life' Martin Wolf, Financial TimesA spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history one with ripple effects that still shape our society todayIn 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded—one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, euphoria and ruin.With unparalleled access to historical records and newly uncovered documents, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers inside the chaos of the crash, behind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger-than-life characters whose ambition and naivety in an endless boom led to wreckage. The dizzying highs and brutal lows of this era eerily mirror today’s world—where markets soar, political tensions mount, and the fight over financial influence plays out once again.This is not just a story about money. 1929 is a tale of power, psychology, and the seductive illusion that “this time is different.” It’s about disregarded alarm bells, financiers who fell from grace, and skeptics who saw the crash coming—only to be dismissed until it was too late.Hailed as a landmark book, Too Big to Fail reimagined how financial crises are told. Now, with 1929, Sorkin delivers an immersive, electrifying account of the most pivotal market collapse of all time—with lessons that remain as urgent as ever. More than just a history, 1929 is a crucial blueprint for understanding the cycles of speculation, the forces that drive financial upheaval, and the warning signs we ignore at our peril.*The Atlantic Monthly
Storpocket, Svenska, 2025
141 kr
"Underhållande folkbildning på hög nivå" Dagens Nyheter
"'Fuskbygget' är måste-läsning för alla med bostadslån" Upsala Nya Tidning
Tillgång på bostäder är en av de viktigaste förutsättningarna för både ekonomisk tillväxt och individuell livskvalitet. Ändå tycks utbudet på bostäder aldrig matcha efterfrågan, och för varje decennium ökar hushållens skuldsättning till nya rekordnivåer, bara för att vi ska kunna ha någonstans att bo. Vinsterna, inte minst för dem som lånar ut pengarna, är enorma. Men det är också riskerna, både för individen och för samhället. Hur blev det egentligen så här? Hur kan ett av människans mest grundläggande behov, tak över huvudet, förvandlas till ett finansiellt bombbälte på samhällskroppen? I Fuskbygget, den pedagogiska och, ärligt talat, skrämmande uppföljaren till succéboken Girig-Sverige, granskar Andreas Cervenka på sitt omisskännliga och underhållande sätt en ekonomi som står på allt lösare grund.
"Orädd för att resonera på halsbrytande makronivå. Rappt, rakt, krasst och humoristiskt lägger han fram välbelagda slutsatser som inte en enda mäklare, finansman eller minister vill att du ska läsa och begripa" Expressen
"Folkbildaren Cervenka skriver enkelt och pedagogiskt, med den kombination av mustig galghumor och fast lågande vrede över sakernas tillstånd" Aftonbladet
Inbunden, Svenska, 2024
295 kr
"Underhållande folkbildning på hög nivå" Dagens Nyheter
"'Fuskbygget' är måste-läsning för alla med bostadslån" Upsala Nya Tidning
Tillgång på bostäder är en av de viktigaste förutsättningarna för både ekonomisk tillväxt och individuell livskvalitet. Ändå tycks utbudet på bostäder aldrig matcha efterfrågan, och för varje decennium ökar hushållens skuldsättning till nya rekordnivåer, bara för att vi ska kunna ha någonstans att bo. Vinsterna, inte minst för dem som lånar ut pengarna, är enorma. Men det är också riskerna, både för individen och för samhället. Hur blev det egentligen så här? Hur kan ett av människans mest grundläggande behov, tak över huvudet, förvandlas till ett finansiellt bombbälte på samhällskroppen? I Fuskbygget, den pedagogiska och, ärligt talat, skrämmande uppföljaren till succéboken Girig-Sverige, granskar Andreas Cervenka på sitt omisskännliga och underhållande sätt en ekonomi som står på allt lösare grund.
"Orädd för att resonera på halsbrytande makronivå. Rappt, rakt, krasst och humoristiskt lägger han fram välbelagda slutsatser som inte en enda mäklare, finansman eller minister vill att du ska läsa och begripa" Expressen
"Folkbildaren Cervenka skriver enkelt och pedagogiskt, med den kombination av mustig galghumor och fast lågande vrede över sakernas tillstånd" Aftonbladet
Pocket, Svenska, 2020
99 kr
Bästsäljaren bakom den Oscarsbelönade filmen!
»Ingen skriver bättre om siffror och pengar än Michael Lewis.« | JAN GRADVALL, DI
»Jag läser Lewis av samma skäl som jag tittar på Tiger Woods. Jag kommer aldrig att spela på samma nivå, men det är bra att bli påmind då och då om hur genialitet ser ut.« | MALCOLM GLADWELL, NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW
När finanskraschen på den amerikanska aktiemarknaden blev allmänt känd 2008 hade den egentligen redan pågått ett bra tag i det dolda. Den verkliga historien började nämligen på bisarra marknader, dit solljuset inte nådde och där tillsynsmyndigheterna inte ville befinna sig. Marknader där skygga genier och särlingar överlistade hela finansmarknaden och tjänade enorma summor på amerikaner som inte kunde betala sina skulder. De insiktsfulla personer som förstod vad som hände, eller kanske hände, var paralyserade av hopp och rädsla; hur som helst sade de ingenting. Michael Lewis skriver en uppslukande, karaktärsdriven berättelse, sprängfylld av indignation och svart humor. Utifrån en handfull osannolika - verkligt osannolika - hjältar, skapar Lewis en berättelse som än en gång bevisar att han är en av de skarpaste och mest underhållande skildrarna av vår tid.
MICHAEL LEWIS är den storsäljande författaren till The Big Short, The Blind Side, Liars Poker och Flash Boys. 2015 kom filmversionen av The Big Short - med Brad Pitt och Christian Bale i två av rollerna - som gjort stor succé på bio och vunnit en rad priser, bland annat en Oscar i kategorin Bästa manus efter förlaga. Michael Lewis bor i Berkeley i Kalifornien med hustru och tre barn.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
309 kr
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A #1 international bestseller Named a BEST BOOK OF 2025 in The Financial Times, Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, TIME, Washington Post and The New York Times One of Barack Obama’s favourite books of 2025'One of the best narrative histories I've read' Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, “the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis,”* comes a spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history one with ripple effects that still shape our society todayIn 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded—one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, euphoria and ruin.With unparalleled access to historical records and newly uncovered documents, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers inside the chaos of the crash, behind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger-than-life characters whose ambition and naivety in an endless boom led to wreckage. The dizzying highs and brutal lows of this era eerily mirror today’s world—where markets soar, political tensions mount, and the fight over financial influence plays out once again.This is not just a story about money. 1929 is a tale of power, psychology, and the seductive illusion that “this time is different.” It’s about disregarded alarm bells, financiers who fell from grace, and skeptics who saw the crash coming—only to be dismissed until it was too late.Hailed as a landmark book, Too Big to Fail reimagined how financial crises are told. Now, with 1929, Sorkin delivers an immersive, electrifying account of the most pivotal market collapse of all time—with lessons that remain as urgent as ever. More than just a history, 1929 is a crucial blueprint for understanding the cycles of speculation, the forces that drive financial upheaval, and the warning signs we ignore at our peril.*The Atlantic Monthly
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
160 kr
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THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which crippled the future of an entire generation and set the stage for the horrors of the Second World War. Yet the economic meltdown could have been avoided, had it not been for the decisions taken by a small number of central bankers.In Lords of Finance, we meet these men, the four bankers who truly broke the world: the enigmatic Norman Montaguof the bank of England, Benjamin Strong of the NY Federal Reserve, the arrogant yet brilliant Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbanlk and the xenophobic Emile Moreau of the Banque de France. Their names were lost to history, their lives and actions forgotten, until now. Liaquat Ahamed tells their story in vivid and gripping detail, in a timely and arresting reminder that individuals - their ambitions, limitations and human nature - lie at the very heart of global catastrophe.
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
237 kr
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Warren Buffett är inte bara världens mest kända investerare han är en av vår tids klokaste och mest ödmjuka individer. Med sina 94 år och en förmögenhet på över 100 miljarder dollar är givetvis många nyfikna på vem han egentligen är.
I Vem är Warren? får vi för första gången på djupet möta börslegendaren Buffett genom ögonen och orden på en svensk författare. Med minutiös research i bagaget tar Cristofer Andersson också han investerare med oss på en resa genom framgångsfabriken Berkshire Hathaway och en närmast ikonisk investeringsfilosofi.
I nio matiga kapitel guidas vi genom Warrens liv och de händelser, personer, investeringar och framför allt kriser som kantar det. Berättandet står oraklet i Omaha själv för genom författaren Cristofer Anderssons skarpa narrativ.
Bonus! Med varje kapitel följer dessutom en sagolik illustration där vår vän Warren håller sig gömd. Kan du hitta honom?
Sagt om boken:
"Buffett och Munger är legendariska investerare med ett fantastiskt track-record. Cristofer beskriver deras utveckling i ett avslappnat format som ger värdefulla insikter."Johan Forsell, vd för Investor (2015-2024)
"Cristofer har verkligen läst på och ger en personlig beskrivning från en svenskt perspektiv."Per Håkan Börjesson, grundare och vd för Invest AB Spiltan
En underhållande lektion i hur en nutida investerar-ikon agerat i några av de större börskrascherna."Henrik Blomqvist, vd på Bure
"Stark rekommendation. Jag sträckläste."James Arhgren, industrialist och entreprenör på AQ Group
"Lika intressant och givande som stimulerande och underhållande."Peter Lindvall, Kavaljer fonder
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
295 kr
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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance comes a brilliant account of the earliest truly global financial calamity.On Friday, 9 May 1873 the Vienna stock market collapsed. Four months later Wall Street was in trouble. Elsewhere, as panic selling spread across financial markets, some countries defaulted on their debts, while the Bank of England was forced to raise its rates to their highest level in a century. It was the first global crash in history. And it was to have calamitous consequences.In his powerful new book, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance tells the epic story of that crash and explores its economic and human costs. He describes how the growth of the international bond market in the 1850s and 60s funded a frenzy of speculation in railways, construction and nation-building. He examines those who became swept up in the boom, from leading bankers like the Rothschild dynasty to national leaders both visionary and venal, to rogues and chancers like the shameless Jay Gould, to such sceptical onlookers as Mark Twain and Karl Marx. He then traces how, in the subsequent panic, investors were left with catastrophic losses, while governments on both sides of the Atlantic rushed misguidedly to reorder the world’s financial system.As he shows, the blunders made as the crisis unfolded set the stage for twenty years of deflation, and a punitive legacy of aggrieved populism that infected every part of the globe. Amid the crash’s many aftershocks, the US abandoned Reconstruction, European powers staged an economic takeover of the heavily indebted Ottoman Empire, and the principle of international free trade came under pressure. Meanwhile there was a revival of antisemitic movements in Europe that blamed ‘Jewish finance’ for the disaster.A brilliant evocation of a key turning point in world history, 1873 is also a masterly examination of the unforeseen political and social consequences of financial misjudgements.
Pocket, Svenska, 2020
89 kr
Ända sedan kapitalismens födelse i medeltidens Europa har finansiella bubblor och krascher varit ett alltför bekant fenomen. Men varför uppstår de - och hur?
Från påvars och kungars konkurser, via Nederländernas tulpaner, USA:s järnvägsbyggen, Kreugers tändstickor och fram till Lehman Brothers förklaras här det intrikata spel mellan lokala och globala aktörer, hjältar och skurkar, stater och företag, kortsiktiga och långsiktiga analyser som fött fram de dramatiska krängningarna i finanshistorien. Och om historien kan lära något, så är det att framtiden ser osäkrare ut än någonsin.
Lars Magnusson är professor i ekonomisk historia vid Uppsala universitet, ledamot av Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien och ordförande i Scandinavian Society of Economic and Social History. Han har skrivit en rad ekonomihistoriska böcker på engelska och svenska, bland annat standardverket Sveriges ekonomiska historia.
Häftad, Svenska, 2022
252 kr
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Ska vi förstå kapitalismen måste vi förstå dess kriser. Kriser under kapitalismen är inte exceptionella händelser som kommer ur tomma intet. De visar heller inte på svagheter i kapitalismen. De är istället centrala delar av systemet. Kriserna försvårar alltså inte för kapitalismen, de bidrar tvärtom till att den överlever. I "Krisernas tid" undersöker Ståle Holgersen ekonomiska och ekologiska kriser, och sambandet mellan dem. De ekonomiska kriserna – från den stora depressionen 1929 och stagflationskrisen 1973 till kriserna 2008 och 2020 – har alla varit djupt rotade i kapitalismens funktions- och reproduktionssätt. Men detta gäller också ekologiska kriser, som den globala uppvärmningen, degraderingen av ekosystemen och det ohållbara resursutnyttjandet. I båda fallen finns även en gemensam klassaspekt: kriserna drabbar huvudsakligen en annan klass än den som bär ansvaret för dem. Stater möter alltid kriserna genom att hålla liv i vårt ekonomiska system, och rasism, fascism och krig är andra viktiga komponenter när kriserna bidrar till att kapitalismen reproduceras. Boken visar även på olikheter mellan kriserna. Ekonomiska kriser medför en kreativ förstörelse som bidrar till krisernas lösning – och den härskande klassen brukar dessutom vilja komma ur krisen så fort som möjligt. Vad gäller de ekologiska kriserna ser det annorlunda ut. Varken mekanismerna i systemet eller en härskande klass kommer rädda oss från en klimatkatastrof, det kan bara vi själva.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
144 kr
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WINNER OF THE 2019 MADAME DE STAËL PRIZE AND THE 2018 LEONTIEF PRIZE FOR ADVANCING THE FRONTIERS OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight.In modern capitalism, value-extraction is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive process that drives a healthy economy and society. From companies driven solely to maximize shareholder value to astronomically high prices of medicines justified through big pharma's 'value pricing', we misidentify taking with making, and have lost sight of what value really means. Once a central plank of economic thought, this concept of value - what it is, why it matters to us - is simply no longer discussed. Yet, argues Mariana Mazzucato in this penetrating and passionate new book, if we are to reform capitalism - radically to transform an increasingly sick system rather than continue feeding it - we urgently need to rethink where wealth comes from. Which activities create it, which extract it, which destroy it? Answers to these questions are key if we want to replace the current parasitic system with a type of capitalism that is more sustainable, more symbiotic - that works for us all. The Value of Everything reigniteS a long-needed debate about the kind of world we really want to live in.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
189 kr
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An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today’s world – from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth ‘A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world’ Ai Weiwei In the twenty-first century, a wave of political, cultural and technological change has capsized our old certainties and assumptions, creating both opportunity and danger.As people lose their faith in old institutions and elites, radical voices at the margins and the grassroots are disrupting the status quo. This is the time of the outsider – the protester, the populist, the hacker. Some of these outsiders have sown chaos, like Donald Trump, and others have provided inspirational leadership, like Volodymyr Zelensky. But all have grasped this precarious moment to make something new.Writing with a critic’s incisive understanding of cultural trends, Michiko Kakutani outlines the consequences of these new asymmetries of power, and looks back to similar hinge moments in history, from the waning of the Middle Ages to the aftermath of the Second World War, to find a way forward.For there is, Kakutani argues, always the promise of transformation in times of turmoil. We can surrender to the waters, give in to the gathering chaos, or we can use the wave’s momentum to propel us into a more stable and sustainable future.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
340 kr
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In the Eighth Edition of this classic text on the financial history of bubbles and crashes, Robert McCauley joins with Robert Aliber in building on Charles Kindleberger's renowned work. McCauley draws on his central banking experience to introduce new chapters on cryptocurrency and the United States as the 21st Century global lender of last resort. He also updates the book's coverage of the recent property bubble in China, as well as providing new perspectives on the US housing bubble of 2003-2006, and the Japanese bubble of the late 1980s. And he gives new attention to the social psychology that leads people to take the risk of investing in Ponzi schemes and asset price bubbles. For the first time in this revised and updated edition, figures highlight key points to ensure that today’s generation of finance and economic researchers, students, practitioners and policy-makers—as well as investors looking to avoid crashes—have access to this panoramic history of financial crisis.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
126 kr
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**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Yanis Varoufakis, world renowned economist, writes to his daughter to teach her the hazards of capitalism.'Why is there so much inequality?' asked Xenia to her father. Answering her questions in a series of accessible and tender letters, Varoufakis educates her to what economics and capitalism is and why it is so dangerous.Taking from memories of her childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis turns Talking To My Daughter into an enjoyable and engaging read, without ever shying from the harder truths. Greece's former finance minister explains everything you need to know to understand why economics is the most important drama of our times.In answering his daughter's deceptively simple questions, Varoufakis disentangles our troubling world with remarkable clarity and child-like honesty, as well as inspiring us to make it a better one.'Utterly accessible, deeply humane and startlingly original - a potent democratic tool at the perfect time' Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
206 kr
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'Essential reading to understand today's challenges'MERVYN KING'This extraordinary tour de force confirms Goodspeed as one of the most brilliant economic minds of his generation'NIALL FERGUSON'Revolutionary and stimulating'MARTIN WOLF, FINANCIAL TIMESWhat causes a recession? Do recessions end on their own, or do they require external intervention? Does a recession in one country mean the rest of the world will follow? Are we in a recession now?Economic expert Tyler Goodspeed answers these questions and many more in Recession, a groundbreaking new analysis of economic contractions over the last four centuries. Combining the historian's extensive primary source material and the economist's arsenal of statistical analysis, this book rewrites what we know about recessions. Contrary to popular perception, recessions are not the inevitable bust that follows an unsustainable boom, and they do not operate like wildfires that clear out economic deadwood. Recessions are caused by adverse shocks like war and energy price spikes, and far from unleashing gales of creative destruction, after a recession, economic growth typically resumes the same trend as before-all pain, no gain. While recessions have become less frequent over time, decisions made by businesses and governments can prolong recessions, and Goodspeed offers guidance to avoid making recessions worse. Issuing an important corrective to economic thinking, Recession is essential reading for high-level policymakers and armchair economists alike.
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Inbunden, Svenska, 2026
275 kr
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Internationellt hyllad, nu kommer äntligen Andrew Ross Sorkin på svenska.
Andrew Ross Sorkin är journalist och författare, mest känd som finanskrönikör på New York Times och skapare av tv-serien Billions. Han har gjort sig ett namn genom att skildra finansvärlden med både skärpa och berättarglädje.
I hyllade 1929 tar han med läsaren rakt in i den dramatiska börskraschen som krossade Wall Street och utlöste den stora depressionen. Med journalistisk nerv och en imponerande bredd av källor skildrar han inte bara vad som hände, utan varför. Genom att följa bankirer, politiker, spekulanter och beslutsfattare visar Sorkin hur eufori förvandlades till panik, och hur en kombination av övermod, skuldsättning och kollektivt självbedrägeri banade väg för katastrofen.
En berättelse om människor snarare än siffror, och samtidigt en varning: historien upprepar sig oftare än vi vill tro.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
208 kr
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Winner of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize'Majestic, informative and often delightful ... insights on every page' Yanis Varoufakis, ObserverThe definitive history of the Great Financial Crisis, from the acclaimed author of The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction. In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehman brothers, shook the world. A decade later its spectre still haunts us. As the appalling scope and scale of the crash was revealed, the financial institutions that had symbolised the West's triumph since the end of the Cold War, seemed - through greed, malice and incompetence - to be about to bring the entire system to its knees.Crashed is a brilliantly original and assured analysis of what happened and how we were rescued from something even worse - but at a price which continues to undermine democracy across Europe and the United States. Gnawing away at our institutions are the many billions of dollars which were conjured up to prevent complete collapse. Over and over again, the end of the crisis has been announced, but it continues to hound us - whether in Greece or Ukraine, whether through Brexit or Trump. Adam Tooze follows the trail like no previous writer and has written a book compelling as history, as economic analysis and as political horror story.
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
257 kr
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Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different"--claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. With this breakthrough study, leading economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff definitively prove them wrong. Covering sixty-six countries across five continents, This Time Is Different presents a comprehensive look at the varieties of financial crises, and guides us through eight astonishing centuries of government defaults, banking panics, and inflationary spikes--from medieval currency debasements to today's subprime catastrophe. Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, leading economists whose work has been influential in the policy debate concerning the current financial crisis, provocatively argue that financial combustions are universal rites of passage for emerging and established market nations. The authors draw important lessons from history to show us how much--or how little--we have learned.Using clear, sharp analysis and comprehensive data, Reinhart and Rogoff document that financial fallouts occur in clusters and strike with surprisingly consistent frequency, duration, and ferocity. They examine the patterns of currency crashes, high and hyperinflation, and government defaults on international and domestic debts--as well as the cycles in housing and equity prices, capital flows, unemployment, and government revenues around these crises. While countries do weather their financial storms, Reinhart and Rogoff prove that short memories make it all too easy for crises to recur. An important book that will affect policy discussions for a long time to come, This Time Is Different exposes centuries of financial missteps.
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
202 kr
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The era-defining international bestseller - the definitive account of the global financial crash'Has all the drama of a Hollywood movie' Daily Telegraph'The definitive account' Sunday Times, Books of the YearThey were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions. They thought they were too big to fail. Yet they would bring the world to its knees.Andrew Ross Sorkin, the news-breaking New York Times journalist, delivers the first true in-the-room account of the most powerful men and women at the eye of the financial storm - from reviled Lehman Brothers CEO Dick 'the gorilla' Fuld, to banking whiz Jamie Dimon, from bullish Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to AIG's Joseph Cassano, dubbed 'The Man Who Crashed the World'.Through unprecedented access to the key players, Sorkin meticulously re-creates frantic phone calls, foul-mouthed rows and white-knuckle panic, as Wall Street fought to save itself.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
269 kr
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'Essential reading to understand today's challenges'MERVYN KING'This extraordinary tour de force confirms Goodspeed as one of the most brilliant economic minds of his generation'NIALL FERGUSON'Revolutionary and stimulating'MARTIN WOLF, FINANCIAL TIMESWhat causes a recession? Do recessions end on their own, or do they require external intervention? Does a recession in one country mean the rest of the world will follow? Are we in a recession now?Economic expert Tyler Goodspeed answers these questions and many more in Recession, a groundbreaking new analysis of economic contractions over the last four centuries. Combining the historian's extensive primary source material and the economist's arsenal of statistical analysis, this book rewrites what we know about recessions. Contrary to popular perception, recessions are not the inevitable bust that follows an unsustainable boom, and they do not operate like wildfires that clear out economic deadwood. Recessions are caused by adverse shocks like war and energy price spikes, and far from unleashing gales of creative destruction, after a recession, economic growth typically resumes the same trend as before-all pain, no gain. While recessions have become less frequent over time, decisions made by businesses and governments can prolong recessions, and Goodspeed offers guidance to avoid making recessions worse. Issuing an important corrective to economic thinking, Recession is essential reading for high-level policymakers and armchair economists alike.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
335 kr
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Financial collapses-whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market-are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how financial markets, and particularly booms and busts, are constructed. Through an in-depth investigation into the everyday experiences and ideologies of Wall Street investment bankers, Ho describes how a financially dominant but highly unstable market system is understood, justified, and produced through the restructuring of corporations and the larger economy. Ho, who worked at an investment bank herself, argues that bankers’ approaches to financial markets and corporate America are inseparable from the structures and strategies of their workplaces. Her ethnographic analysis of those workplaces is filled with the voices of stressed first-year associates, overworked and alienated analysts, undergraduates eager to be hired, and seasoned managing directors. Recruited from elite universities as “the best and the brightest,” investment bankers are socialized into a world of high risk and high reward. They are paid handsomely, with the understanding that they may be let go at any time. Their workplace culture and networks of privilege create the perception that job insecurity builds character, and employee liquidity results in smart, efficient business. Based on this culture of liquidity and compensation practices tied to profligate deal-making, Wall Street investment bankers reshape corporate America in their own image. Their mission is the creation of shareholder value, but Ho demonstrates that their practices and assumptions often produce crises instead. By connecting the values and actions of investment bankers to the construction of markets and the restructuring of U.S. corporations, Liquidated reveals the particular culture of Wall Street often obscured by triumphalist readings of capitalist globalization.
Häftad, Svenska, 2015
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Europa upplever sin förmodligen allvarligaste kris sedan 1945. Den hotar såväl det europeiska integrationsprojektet som den europeiska och globala ekonomin, helt bortsett från den omfattande sociala ödeläggelse som krisen redan orsakat i länder i Europa. Vi upplever i dag en konflikt mellan nord och syd i Europa och på båda sidor om skiljelinjen finns ett missförhållande mellan det som tycks vara ekonomiskt nödvändigt och det som är politiskt görbart inom en demokratisk ordning. De rika ländernas valmanskår ser inte ut att vilja acceptera en långsiktig kollektivisering av skulderna eller andra storstilade former av gränsöverskridande omfördelning av bördorna. I söder vill befolkningarna inte gå med på vad en förbättrad bytesbalans och någorlunda uthärdliga budgetunderskott tycks kräva. Och både i nord och syd försöker populister slå politiskt mynt av krisen. Populisterna i norr avvisar skattefinansierade transfereringar och skuldavskrivningar, medan populisterna i syd häftigt värjer sig mot svångremsdiktat som går ut över löner, pensioner och offentliga tjänster. Finns det en väg ur denna europeiska fälla? I denna bok diskuterar ett antal framstående tyska intellektuella den europeiska krisen som uttryck för ett spänningsförhållande mellan kapitalism och demokrati. Hur kan finansmarknaderna bringas under demokratisk kontroll, finns det en väg tillbaka till en nationalstatlig demokratisk kapitalism eller är det en fördjupad politisk integration i Europa som är lösningen. Den frågan ställs på sin spets i debatten mellan det tyske sociologen Wolfgang Streeck, författare till den på Daidalos utgivna boken Köpt tid, och filosofen Jürgen Habermas. Andra bidragagivare är Claus Offe, Elmar Altvater, Hubert Zimmermann och Stephan Schulmeister. Till boken har Sverker Gustavsson, professor emiritus i statsvetenskap, skrivit ett förord som reder ut debattens positioner. "Den är upplysande, och oväntat underhållande. Alla är urförbannade. De flesta på Wolfgang Streeck som ihärdigt föreslår avveckling av euron för att rädda demokratin. Jag gapar när elefanterna tungt dammar på varandra." /Per Wirtén i Expressen "Runtom i Europa finns de som på allvar diskuterar problemen, och lyckligtvis har en del av det samtalet hittat in även i den svenska offentligheten tack vare boken 'Demokrati eller kapitalism?'" /Lisa Irenius i SvD
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Engelska, 2025122 kr
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A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2025NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 IN THE Financial Times, Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, TIME, Washington Post and The New York Times'Superb... brings the great drama to life' Martin Wolf, Financial TimesA spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history one with ripple effects that still shape our society todayIn 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded—one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, euphoria and ruin.With unparalleled access to historical records and newly uncovered documents, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers inside the chaos of the crash, behind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger-than-life characters whose ambition and naivety in an endless boom led to wreckage. The dizzying highs and brutal lows of this era eerily mirror today’s world—where markets soar, political tensions mount, and the fight over financial influence plays out once again.This is not just a story about money. 1929 is a tale of power, psychology, and the seductive illusion that “this time is different.” It’s about disregarded alarm bells, financiers who fell from grace, and skeptics who saw the crash coming—only to be dismissed until it was too late.Hailed as a landmark book, Too Big to Fail reimagined how financial crises are told. Now, with 1929, Sorkin delivers an immersive, electrifying account of the most pivotal market collapse of all time—with lessons that remain as urgent as ever. More than just a history, 1929 is a crucial blueprint for understanding the cycles of speculation, the forces that drive financial upheaval, and the warning signs we ignore at our peril.*The Atlantic Monthly
Inbunden, Svenska, 2014
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Den 12 mars 1932 hittades Ivar Kreuger liggande död på sängen i sin Parisvåning. Han var fullt påklädd och han höll en automatpistol i sin vänstra hand. Ivar Kreuger var ägare till en världsomspännande koncern och rankades som en bland världens rikaste män. Omedelbart efter hans död spreds rykten om att Ivar Kreuger var en svindlare och bedragare, att hans koncern, på grund av hans brottsliga verksamhet var utsugen och konkursmässig, och att han därför begick självmord för att undvika att stå till svars för att ha bedragit och plundrat aktieägare, debenturesägare och investerare. Samtidigt har andra rykten kommit i gång om att Ivar Kreuger inte begick självmord, att han i stället blev mördad av sina fiender som slog sönder hans koncern och fördelade sinsemellan dess enorma tillgångar. Boken Sanningen bakom Kreugerkraschen är resultat av 12 års sökande efter svaret på frågan vad som döljer sig bakom den s.k. ”Kreugerkraschen” och det påstådda ”självmordet” som Ivar Kreuger skulle ha begått. Med hjälp av nya, tidigare icke kända dokument och vittnesmål, kastar boken nytt ljus och ger svar på frågor som vederlägger nu gällande officiella ”sanningen” om Kreugerkoncernens sammanbrott och Ivar Kreugers död.
Inbunden, Tyska, 2022
380 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization, from Runciman Award winner Bruce Clark 'A stunning retrospect and beautifully written overview of one of the world's greatest cities' Paul Cartledge'Courageously grand in scale yet sensitive to the details that make Athens' extraordinary history come alive' Sofka Zinovieff'Bruce Clark brings an eye for the quirky, human detail, a pithy turn of phrase, and an affection for his subject honed over many decades' Roderick Beaton'Bruce Clark's enchantingly readable history revealed how little I knew' Literary ReviewDominated by the pillars and pediments of the Parthenon, a temple dedicated to Athena, goddess of wisdom, the ancient Greek city of Athens is for many synonymous with civilization itself.Athens: City of Wisdom tells the tale of a city that occupies a unique place in the cultural memory of the West. Each of the book's twenty-one chapters focuses on a critical 'moment' in the city's long history, from the reforms of the lawmaker Solon in the sixth century BCE to the travails of early twenty-first-century Athens, as a rapidly expanding city struggles with the legacy of a global economic crisis. Bruce Clark has a rich and revealing sequence of stories to tell – not only of the familiar golden age of Classical Athens, of the removal from the Acropolis of the Parthenon marbles by agents of the 7th Earl of Elgin in the early nineteenth century, or of the holding of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896; but also of the less fêted later years of antiquity, when St Paul preached on the Areopagus and neo Platonists refounded the Academy that Sulla's legions had desecrated. He also delves into Athens' forgotten medieval centuries, unearthing jewels gleaming in the Byzantine twilight, and tales of Christian fortitude and erratic Turkish governance from the four centuries of Ottoman rule that followed.Few places have enjoyed a history so rich in artistic creativity and the making of ideas as Athens; or one so curiously patterned by alternating cycles of turbulence and quietness. Writing with scholarly rigour and undisguised affection, Bruce Clark brings three thousand years of Athenian history vividly to life.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
292 kr
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A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apart “[A] fascinating book.”—Martin Wolf, Financial Times, “Best Books of 2023—Economics” The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into “good” crises, which ultimately expand markets and globalization, and “bad” crises, which result in a smaller, less prosperous world. Examining seven turning points in financial history—from the depression of the 1840s through the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Covid-19 crisis—James shows how crashes prompted by a lack of supply, like the oil shortages of the 1970s, lead to greater globalization as markets expand and producers innovate to increase supply. By contrast, crises triggered by a lack of demand—such as the Global Financial Crisis of 2007–2008—result in less globalization as markets contract, austerity measures are imposed, and skepticism of government grows. By considering not only the times but also the observers who shaped our understanding of each crisis—from Karl Marx to John Maynard Keynes to Larry Summers—James shows how the uneven course of globalization has led to new economic thinking, and how understanding this history can help us better prepare for the future.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
224 kr
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In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to professorships at Stanford and Princeton, to public service in Washington’s halls of power. There would be no time to celebrate, however—the burst of the housing bubble in 2007 set off a domino effect that would bring the global financial system to the brink of meltdown.In The Courage to Act, Ben Bernanke pulls back the curtain on the tireless and ultimately successful efforts to prevent a mass economic failure. Working with two US presidents and two Treasury secretaries, Bernanke and his colleagues used every Fed capability, no matter how arcane, to keep the US economy afloat. From his arrival in Washington in 2002 and his experiences before the crisis, to the intense days and weeks of the crisis itself, and through the Great Recession that followed, Bernanke gives readers an unequalled perspective on the American economy.This narrative will reveal for the first time how the creativity and decisiveness of a few key leaders prevented an economic collapse of unimaginable scale. Bernanke explains the inspiration behind the book’s title, saying, “When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve, policymakers and staff alike, mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary, often in the face of bitter criticism and condemnation. I am grateful to all of them and proud to have been part of the global effort to contain the most dangerous economic crisis of our time.”
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
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'A highly enjoyable exercise in financial disaster tourism... politically incorrect, often very funny, and shot through with genuine insight' Robert Harris, The TimesIn this hilarious, fascinating, timely must-read, Michael Lewis reveals the true natures of the countries caught up in - and exacerbating - our boomerang economies, showing how the financial meltdown hit us all in the face. Right now, Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by taxi, and hairdressing is classified as arduous for tax avoidance purposes. In Iceland, Range Rovers frequently explode as owners collect the insurance to pay for them. Ireland saw the entire country put up for sale - to itself, while the Germans expected the whole world to behave like them. But the whole world didn't.'Chock-full of extraordinary characters, amusing anecdotes and shocking insights' Observer'A tour de force... All those questions you've half-asked yourself: nowhere else will you find them answered with such incisive wit or terrifying clarity' Mail on Sunday
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
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*INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*‘Extraordinary’ The Observer‘A stupefyingly pleasurable book to read’ New Yorker‘Lewis’s storytelling is as good as ever’ The EconomistFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular financial collapses'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the question over. "One hundred and fifty billion dollars," he finally said-though he added that he had use for "infinity dollars"...'Sam Bankman-Fried wasn't just rich. Before he turned thirty he'd become the world's youngest billionaire, making a record fortune in the crypto frenzy. CEOs, celebrities and world leaders vied for his time. At one point he considered paying off the entire national debt of the Bahamas so he could take his business there.Then it all fell apart.Who was this Gatsby of the crypto world, a rumpled guy in cargo shorts, whose eyes twitched across TV interviews as he played video games on the side, who even his million-dollar investors still found a mystery? What gave him such an extraordinary ability to make money - and how did his empire collapse so spectacularly?Michael Lewis was there when it happened, having got to know Bankman-Fried during his epic rise. In Going Infinite he tells us a story like no other, taking us through the mind-bending trajectory of a character who never liked the rules and was allowed to live by his own. Both psychological portrait of a preternaturally gifted 'thinking machine', and wild financial roller-coaster ride, this is a twenty-first-century epic of high-frequency trading and even higher stakes, of crypto mania and insane amounts of money, of hubris and downfall. No one could tell it better.