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1929

The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History

AvAndrew Ross Sorkin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

302 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

Fuskbygget : så knäckte bostadsmarknaden Sverige och världen

AvAndreas Cervenka

Inbunden, Svenska, 2024

255 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

The big short : den sanna historien bakom århundradets finanskris

AvMichael Lewis

Pocket, Svenska, 2020

99 kr

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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.

Vem är Warren? : börskrascher, riskhantering och kapital

AvCristofer Andersson

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

237 kr

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

A Great Deal of Ruin

Financial Crises since 1929

AvJames Gerber

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

422 kr

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A Great Deal of Ruin provides an accessible introduction to the enduring problem of financial crises. Illustrated with historical analysis, case studies, and clear economic concepts, this book explains in three parts what financial crises are, how they are caused and what we can learn from them. It begins with a taxonomy of crises and a list of factors that increase the risk for countries experiencing a financial crisis. It then examines five of the most important crises in modern economic history, beginning with the Great Depression and ending with the subprime crisis in the United States and its evolution into a debt crisis in the Eurozone. The book concludes with a set of lessons that can be learnt from the crises of the past. It will appeal to university students as well as general readers who are curious to learn more about the recent subprime crisis and other financial crises.

Fuskbygget : så knäckte bostadsmarknaden Sverige och världen

AvAndreas Cervenka

Storpocket, Svenska, 2025

141 kr

"Underhållande folkbildning på hög nivå" Dagens Nyheter

"'Fuskbygget' är måste-läsning för alla med bostadslån" Upsala Nya Tidning

"Folkbildaren Cervenka skriver enkelt och pedagogiskt, med den kombination av mustig galghumor och fast lågande vrede över sakernas tillstånd" Aftonbladet

Krisernas tid : ekologi och ekonomi under kapitalismen

AvStåle Holgersen

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.

Value of Everything

Making and Taking in the Global Economy

AvMariana Mazzucato

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

122 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.

Demokrati eller kapitalism? : Europa i kris

AvElmar Altvater,Jürgen Habermasm. fl.

Häftad, Svenska, 2015

208 kr

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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

Great Wave

The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

AvMichiko Kakutani

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.

A Political Theory of Money

AvAnush Kapadia

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

344 kr

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Understanding money's nature as political, institutional, and material answers today's big money questions. Money remains a foundational question of social theory. What is money? Why does something so insubstantial have value? How do money systems make promises function like valuable things? Why are money systems always hierarchical yet variable? The answer, the book argues, is politics. Money is institutionalised social power. Politics generates institutions that differentially lock into the future product of political and economic collectives. Money emerges from the institutionalisation of social antagonisms to encapsulate a collective's productive potential in a flexible, tradable instrument. This takes a system. Money is built in hierarchical layers out of the inherently variable material of politics and at various economic scales. This book outlines these variable processes theoretically and through case studies.

Finanskrascher : från kapitalismens födelse till Lehman Brothers

AvLars Magnusson

Pocket, Svenska, 2020

89 kr

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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.

Lords of Finance

1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers who Broke the World

AvLiaquat Ahamed

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.

Courage to Act

A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath

AvBen S. Bernanke

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.”

Courage to Act

A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath

AvBen S. Bernanke

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

333 kr

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This Time Is Different

Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

AvCarmen M. Reinhart,Kenneth S. Rogoff

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

252 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.

Talking to My Daughter

The Sunday Times Bestseller

AvYanis Varoufakis

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

Kreugerkraschen

AvTomas Blom

Häftad, Svenska, 2020

189 kr

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Finansmannen Ivar Kreuger genomförde sina mest spektakulära affärer under det glada tjugotalet. Det var en period av stigande konjunkturer och börsspekulationer som tog en ände med förskräckelse i den beryktade börskraschen i oktober 1929. Vid det laget hade Kreuger skapat ett världsomspännande affärsimperium byggt på tändstickor, men även företag som LM Ericsson, Boliden, Grängesberg och SCA ingick.

Kreugers bolag drogs med i krisen, som förvärrades av att hans motståndare iscensatte spekulationer för att dra ner värdet på aktierna. I början av år 1932 hade situationen blivit synnerligen allvarlig. Officiellt begick Ivar Kreuger självmord i mars detta år.

Det ifrågasattes aldrig av den svenska kommission som förklarade honom mer eller mindre bankrutt. Men genom åren har många röster höjts som hävdar att det rörde sig om mord, dirigerat av hans konkurrenter i Sverige och utomlands. I sin bok ger Tomas Blom inte det definitiva svaret på gåtan Kreuger, men läsaren får definitivt något att fundera på.

Kollapsens fem stadier : handbok för överlevare

AvDmitry Orlov

Häftad, Svenska, 2019

246 kr

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Den här boken handlar inte om vad vi kan eller ska göra för att undvika en samhällskollaps. En sådan är nämligen oundviklig hävdar den rysk-amerikanske författaren Dmitry Orlov. De intressanta frågorna som är de som diskuteras i den här boken är istället vilken typ av kollapser som kan drabba oss och hur vi kan överleva dem.

Enligt Dmitry Orlov inträffar en kollaps alltid stegvis:

Stadie 1. Ekonomisk kollaps. Tron på "business as usual" försvinner.

Stadie 2. Kommersiell kollaps. Tron på att marknaden levererar försvinner.

Stadie 3. Politisk kollaps. Tron på att myndigheterna tar hand om dig försvinner.

Stadie 4. Social kollaps. Tron på att dina medmänniskor tar hand om dig försvinner i takt med att samhällsinstitutionerna får slut på resurser.

Stadie 5. Kulturell kollaps. Tron på människans inneboende godhet försvinner.

I Kollapsens fem stadier beskriver Dmitry Orlov vad som kännetecknar varje enskilt stadium, vilka åtgärder som kan vidtas för att klara en anpassning till de nya sociala omständigheterna och hejda att kollapsen går vidare till ett högre, mer förödande stadium. Han tar också upp historiska exempel på kollapshantering, bland annat Island efter finanskraschen 2008 (där kollapsen stabiliserade sig på stadium 1 för att sedan vända) och Ryssland efter Sovjetunionens fall (där kollapsen stabiliserade sig på stadium 2 för att sedan vända).

OM FÖRFATTAREN

Dmitry Orlov, född i Leningrad 1962, emigrerad till USA i mitten på 1970-talet, är dataingenjör, lingvist och författare till bland annat följande böcker: Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects (2008), Emergency Eyewash (2015), The Pitfalls of English (2015), Shrinking the Technosphere: Getting a Grip on Technologies that Limit our Autonomy, Self-Sufficiency and Freedom (2016) och Collapse and the Good Life (2018). Dmitry Orlov driver den populära bloggen Club Orlov. Kollapsens fem stadier är den första boken av honom att utges på svenska.

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"Dmitry Orlovs Reinventing Collapse (2008) var ett storstilat verk som kombinerade politisk prosa med elegant litterär stil. Det signalerade att en betydande tänkare hade gjort entré på scenen i en tid som inte brydde sig så mycket om tänkare (om de inte kunde uppfinna appar). Nu är Orlov tillbaka med ytterligare en betydande framställning, Kollapsens fem stadier. Här utgår han helt sonika ifrån att den globala industriella civilisationen är på väg mot kollaps han bemödar sig inte om att argumentera för att så är fallet. Istället visar Orlov i detalj hur processen för en sådan kollaps kommer att se ut. Många människor föreställer sig ofta, inspirerade av Hollywood, en kollaps som ett apokalyptiskt melodram där någon form av kaos spelar en central roll i historien. Orlov undviker nogsamt detta. Istället beskriver han ett tydligt mönster för händelserna som utvecklar sig naturligt och begripligt i en alldeles speciell ordning ungefär som en läkare på akutmottagningen gör när han noterar hur patientens organ upphör att fungera ett efter ett. Dmitry Orlov hanterar sitt ämne med enastående skärpa och överraskande kvickhet. Kollapsens fem stadier skiljer sig från de många andra böckerna som tar upp de svårigheter människan står inför i denna period av historien. Med tanke på det tämligen allvarsamma temat så är det verkligen en fröjd att läsa någon som skriver så bra. Jag kan inte nog rekommendera boken. Orlov är såväl en av sin generations stora litterära stilister som en av dess ledande intellektuella." James Howard Kunstler på Peak Prosperity

Crashed

How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

AvAdam Tooze

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

202 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.

Boom and Bust

A Global History of Financial Bubbles

AvWilliam Quinn,John D. Turner

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

177 kr

Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Shanghai in the 2000s. As they do so, they help us understand why bubbles happen, and why some have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences whilst others have actually benefited society. They reveal that bubbles start when investors and speculators react to new technology or political initiatives, showing that our ability to predict future bubbles will ultimately come down to being able to predict these sparks.

Boomerang

The Meltdown Tour

AvMichael Lewis

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

152 kr

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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

Global Minotaur

America, Europe and the Future of the World Economy

AvYanis Varoufakis

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

191 kr

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'The emerging rock-star of Europe's anti-austerity uprising.'Daily Telegraph 'A spirited book.'New YorkerIn this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, explodes the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalisation were the root causes of both the Eurozone crisis and the global economic crisis. Rather, they are symptoms of a much deeper malaise which can be traced all the way back to the Great Crash of 1929, then on through to the 1970s: the time when a Global Minotaur was born.Today's deepening crisis in Europe is just one of the inevitable symptoms of the weakening Minotaur; of a global system which is now as unsustainable as it is imbalanced. Going beyond this, Varoufakis reveals how we might reintroduce a modicum of reason into what has become a perniciously irrational economic order.An essential account of the socio-economic events and hidden histories that have shaped the world as we now know it.

Going Infinite

The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

AvMichael Lewis

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

125 kr

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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.

What Works

Success in Stressful Times

AvHamish McRae

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

140 kr

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Using examples ranging from Ikea to the slums of Mumbai, leading economic expert Hamish McRae studies which businesses, organisations and initiatives have what it takes to succeed, and what it is that distinguishes them in an increasingly competitive global marketplace.Calling on years of experience as an award-winning financial journalist and international public speaker, the author brings a fresh perspective to the question of success, differentiating the few 'big ideas' that have transformed the marketplace from passing trends and over-hyped blind alleys.Through an extraordinary range of case studies and an authoritative grasp of his material, the author demonstrates that although there is no surefire recipe for success, there are several key ingredients – such as sense of mission and market sensitivity – which ambitious readers can apply to their own business practices. This is a book of very real successes rather than overblown ideologies: each case study is based around an on-site visit by an author and interviews with the people in charge. Bearing in mind the role of fashion, scale and other less predictable factors, ‘What Works’ ultimately offers the general reader the chance to learn from some of the grandest economic successes and unexpected failures in the world today, through a series of imaginative, unusual and insightful examples.

Very English Deceit

The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal

AvMalcolm Balen

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

186 kr

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The paperback of the critically acclaimed popular history book: the story of the South Sea Bubble which in Balen’s hands becomes a morality tale for our times. A classic collision of political ambition, mercenary greed and financial revolution.The early years of the 18th-century produced two great monuments: one, Christopher Wren’s new cathedral of St Paul’s, an enduring testament to principled craft and masterful construction; the other, an empty fraud of such magnitude that its collapse threatened to overturn monarchies and governments. Its failure delayed the introduction of modern market economies by two generations. Yet the full scale of this monumental deceit was quietly covered up and hidden, its enduring legacy a poorly understood colloquialism: the South Sea Bubble.It was all planned by one ambitious promoter, who had decided to launch ‘a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is’. This eighteenth-century mission statement has now acquired an almost uncanny resonance: these words could aptly have been applied to the bursting of the internet bubble and the collapse of Enron. With the financial scandals that have beset global companies recently, such as Rank Xerox and Worldcom, this tale is all the more relevant today.Balen reveals the full story of corruption and scandal that attended the birth of the first shareholder economy, and with it uncovers a parable for our times.

It’s All Their Fault

AvNeil Boorman

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

147 kr

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A call to arms, a chance for those born in the 70s and 80s to respond to the chaos. We can not stop the debt bomb but we can remove the Boomer politicians from office. There will be a general election in May. This is our opportunity to kick them out of power.This is a terrible time to be young. Graduates are joining the dole queue as soon as they leave university, while their parents retire on cosy nest eggs. First time buyers are struggling to pay off mortgages on shoe boxes as their folks buy second homes abroad. Young families are struggling to provide the basics as their grandparents embark on another cruise.Every baby in the UK is born owing £22,500, a share of the £1.4 trillion credit crunch bail out. The average student graduates £20,000 in debt. The prospect of paying off that debt and saving for a deposit for a one bedroom flat is remote, and it is all the fault of our parents. Anyone under the age of 35 is living in the shadow of the Baby Boomer Generation who grew up in an era of rapidly growing prosperity, drew wages from jobs for life, got their education for free, and bought multiple cars and TVs that they didn't need.The enormous financial debt we've been handed comes from both their megalomania of overspending and their reckless economic and political decision-making. And it is going to get worse. There are roughly 900 days left until the Boomer time bomb goes off and they reach retirement, cease to pay taxes and start drawing pensions.We have one chance to create change, and this is it.

Kleptopia

How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

AvTom Burgis

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

126 kr

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SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough … This terrifying book follows a global current of dirty money, and the murders and kidnappings required to sustain it’ GEORGE MONBIOT, GUARDIANAN ECONOMIST AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020‘When you pick this book up, you won’t be able to put it down’ MISHA GLENNY, author of MCMAFIA‘Gripping, disturbing and deeply reported’ BEN RHODES, bestselling author of THE WORLD AS IT IS In this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping revelations, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgis reveals a terrifying global web of kleptocracy and corruption. Kleptopia follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, enriching oligarchs and poisoning democracies. From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, London to the Trump White House, it shows how the thieves are uniting – and the terrible human cost.A body in a burned-out Audi. Workers riddled with bullets in the Kazakh desert. A rigged election in Zimbabwe. A British banker silenced and humiliated for trying to expose the truth about the City of London – the world’s piggy bank for blood money.Riveting, horrifying and written like fiction, this book shows that while we are looking the other way, all that we hold most dear is being stolen.

Race for Tomorrow

A Journey Through the Front Lines of the Climate Fight

AvSimon Mundy

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

126 kr

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As featured on CNN’s Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week with Andrew MarrOne of the Financial Times’ best books of 2021In this compelling journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy traces how the struggle to respond to the climate crisis is rapidly reshaping the modern world – shattering communities, shaking global business and propelling waves of cutting-edge innovation.Telling unforgettable human stories, meeting scientists and business tycoons, activists and political leaders, this is an account of disaster and survival, of frantic adaptation and groundbreaking innovation, of hope, and of the forces that will define our future. More praise ‘Urgent reading … A truly global journey’ SOPHY ROBERTS‘Vivid and informed’ ADAM NICOLSON‘I took a great sense of hope’ RICHARD POWERS‘Reads like a thriller’ MARK LYNAS‘An inspiring piece of work’ MICHAEL E. MANN‘Utterly unlike any book yet written in this field’ ANAND MAHINDRA‘Gripping … A must-read for every concerned global citizen’ NANDAN NILEKANI

Values

An Economist’s Guide to Everything That Matters

AvMark Carney

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

160 kr

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A radical book that speaks out accessibly’ BONO ‘Indispensable … This is the essential handbook’ CHRISTINE LAGARDE ‘A remarkably good read’ GILLIAN TETT, Financial Times ‘A landmark achievement’ WILL HUTTON, Observer This is a pivotal moment in our economy. With the markets in free-fall, financial challenges are growing for us all. A winter of inflation and spiralling energy costs looms. But it doesn’t have to be this way. As former Governor for the Bank of England Mark Carney said to the BBC: ‘The message from the financial markets is there’s a limit to unfunded spending and unfunded tax cuts in this environment.’His book is essential reading for today’s economic crisis and provides answers to your questions as well as solutions for the future.In Value(s), Carney offers a roadmap out of this chaos and towards a better, fairer society. This moment could be an opportunity for change, for overhaul. We cannot go on as we have, something must change. Drawing on a truly international perspective, this book offers a blueprint for how we can channel the dynamism of the market to transform intractable global problems into opportunities. And in so doing build a better world for all.Read as one of the great global thinkers of our time examines how what we value has become misaligned and how we can rethink and rebuild before it is too late.