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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 706 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Crashed is a dramatic new narrative resting on original themes: the haphazard nature of economic development and the erratic path of debt around the world; the unseen way individual countries and regions are linked together in deeply unequal relationships through financial interdependence, investment, politics, and force; the ways the financial crisis interacted with the spectacular rise of social media, the crisis of middle-class America, the rise...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiv, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Deftly weaving finance, politics, business, and the global human experience into one tight narrative, a tour-de-force account of 2020, the year that changed everything--from the acclaimed author of Crashed. The shocks of 2020 have been great and small, disrupting the world economy, international relations and the daily lives of virtually everyone on the planet. Never before has the entire world economy contracted by 20 percent in a matter of weeks...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 643 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portrait, charts, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
"A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and material reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing...
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