Finanskriser

1929

Inside the Crash

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

171 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

Fuskbygget : så knäckte bostadsmarknaden Sverige och världen

AvAndreas Cervenka

Inbunden, Svenska, 2024

(40)

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

The big short : den sanna historien bakom århundradets finanskris

AvMichael Lewis

Pocket, Svenska, 2020

(4)

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.

Fuskbygget : så knäckte bostadsmarknaden Sverige och världen

AvAndreas Cervenka

Storpocket, Svenska, 2025

(1)

141 kr

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"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

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.

Fuskbygget : så knäckte bostadsmarknaden Sverige och världen

AvAndreas Cervenka

E-bok

Svenska, 2024

(5)

79 kr

Läs direkt efter köp

"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

1929

The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History

AvAndrew Ross Sorkin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

312 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

Vem är Warren? : börskrascher, riskhantering och kapital

AvCristofer Andersson

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

(2)

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

Finanskrascher : från kapitalismens födelse till Lehman Brothers

AvLars Magnusson

Pocket, Svenska, 2020

(6)

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.

Krisernas tid : ekologi och ekonomi under kapitalismen

AvStåle Holgersen

Häftad, Svenska, 2022

(7)

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

(2)

145 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.

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1873

The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World

AvLiaquat Ahamed

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

268 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.

Crashed

How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

AvAdam Tooze

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

(3)

200 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.

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.

Manias, Panics, and Crashes

A History of Financial Crises

AvRobert Z. Aliber,Charles P. Kindlebergerm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

355 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.

1929

Inside the Crash

AvAndrew Ross Sorkin

E-bok

Engelska, 2025

121 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

Recession

The Real Reasons Economies Shrink and What to Do About It

AvTyler Goodspeed

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

233 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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1929

AvAndrew Ross Sorkin

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.

Boomerang

The Meltdown Tour

AvMichael Lewis

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

156 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.

This Time Is Different

Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

AvCarmen M. Reinhart,Kenneth S. Rogoff

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.

Too Big to Fail

Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street

AvAndrew Ross Sorkin

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

204 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.

Great Contraction, 1929-1933

New Edition

AvMilton Friedman,Anna Jacobson Schwartz

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

387 kr

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Friedman and Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, published in 1963, stands as one of the most influential economics books of the twentieth century. A landmark achievement, the book marshaled massive historical data and sharp analytics to support the claim that monetary policy--steady control of the money supply--matters profoundly in the management of the nation's economy, especially in navigating serious economic fluctuations. The chapter entitled "The Great Contraction, 1929-33" addressed the central economic event of the century, the Great Depression. Published as a stand-alone paperback in 1965, The Great Contraction, 1929-1933 argued that the Federal Reserve could have stemmed the severity of the Depression, but failed to exercise its role of managing the monetary system and ameliorating banking panics. The book served as a clarion call to the monetarist school of thought by emphasizing the importance of the money supply in the functioning of the economy--a concept that has come to inform the actions of central banks worldwide.This edition of the original text includes a new preface by Anna Jacobson Schwartz, as well as a new introduction by the economist Peter Bernstein. It also reprints comments from the current Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, originally made on the occasion of Milton Friedman's 90th birthday, on the enduring influence of Friedman and Schwartz's work and vision.

Values

An Economist’s Guide to Everything That Matters

AvMark Carney

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

165 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.

Finance Curse

How global finance is making us all poorer

AvNicholas Shaxson

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

151 kr

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This is a book that none of us can afford to ignore – an agenda-setting, campaigning investigation that shows how global finance works for the few and not the many.** A Financial Times Book of the Year **‘Essential reading’ YANIS VAROUFAKISWe need finance – but when finance grows too big it becomes a curse.The City of London is the single biggest drain on our resources, sucking talent out of every sphere, siphoning wealth and hoovering up government time. Yet to be ‘competitive’, we’re told we must turn a blind eye to money laundering and appease big business with tax cuts.Tracing the curse back through economic history, Nicholas Shaxson uncovers how we got to this point. Moving from offshore tax havens to the bizarre industry of wealth management, he tells the explosive story of how finance established a stranglehold on society – and reveals how we can begin to break free.‘A radical, urgent and important manifesto for improving our country’Oliver Bullough, Observer‘Superbly written… A must-read’Misha Glenny, author of McMafia‘Hard-hitting, well written and informative’Financial Times

All The Devils Are Here

Unmasking the Men Who Bankrupted the World

AvBethany McLean,Joe Nocera

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

187 kr

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As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on greedy traders, lazy regulators, or clueless home buyers?According to Bethany McLean, author of the bestselling Enron book The Smartest Guys in the Room, and Joe Nocera, the star New York Times columnist, the real answer is all of the above. Many devils helped bring hell to the economy.Yet despite all the analysis of the crash, no one has put all the pieces together and named those responsible. Until now.

And the Weak Suffer What They Must?

Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability

AvYanis Varoufakis

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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156 kr

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**THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**The most recognisable economist on the planet, Yanis Varoufakis, puts forth his case to reform an EU that currently fails it weakest citizens.In this startling account of Europe’s economic rise and catastrophic fall, Varoufakis pinpoints the flaws in the European Union’s design – a design thought up after the Second World War, and one responsible for Europe’s fragmentation and resurgence of racist extremism.When the financial crisis struck in 2008, the political elite’s response ensured it would be the weakest citizens of the weakest nations that paid the price for the bankers’ mistakes. Drawing on his personal experience of negotiations with the eurozone’s financiers, and offering concrete policies to reform Europe, the former finance minister of Greece shows how we concocted this mess and points our way out of it. And The Weak Suffer What They Must? highlights our history to tell us what we must do to save European capitalism and democracy from the abyss. With the future of Europe under intense scrutiny after Brexit, this is the must-read book to explain Europe's structural flaws and how to fix them.'If you ever doubt what is at stake in Europe - read Varoufakis's account' Guardian

Recession

The Real Reasons Economies Shrink and What to Do About It

AvTyler Goodspeed

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

267 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.

Liquidated

An Ethnography of Wall Street

AvKaren Ho

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

315 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.