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Crash: How the Global Financial Crisis Reshaped the World Author: [UK] Adam Tooze Translator: Wu Qiuyu Ideal Country｜Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore
Crash: How the Global Financial Crisis Reshaped the World Author: [UK] Adam Tooze Translator: Wu Qiuyu Ideal Country｜Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore
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"Crash" is an epic about the first global financial tsunami in the era of globalization, and also a thrilling contemporary history.
As an outstanding historian with in-depth research on 20th century history, Adam Tooze adopts a global perspective and describes in detail the 2008 financial crisis and the eurozone crisis and the intricate world history that followed. He not only explains the technical reasons for the outbreak of the crisis from a financial perspective, but also spends a lot of time elaborating on the impact of the crisis on the world political landscape in the past decade, presenting rich and original themes: disordered economic development and unstable debt flows; the imbalanced relationship formed by individual countries and regions being connected in an invisible way through financial interdependence, investment, politics and force; the mutual influence between the financial crisis and the booming development of social media; the crisis of the American middle class; the rise of China; and the struggle over petrochemical energy resources such as oil and natural gas.
Although some people initially tried to downplay the financial crisis as a local event, Adam Tooze believes that the financial crisis that began on Wall Street in 2008 was actually a turning point with global significance. From the financial markets in the UK and Europe to the factories and shipyards in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, global governance had to be readjusted and restructured. In the United States and Europe, capitalist democracy faced challenges, triggering the civil war in Ukraine, chaos in Greece, Brexit, the rise of Trump and the rise of populism in various countries. The Western world encountered the biggest crisis since the end of the Cold War.
The crisis swept across the world, the global economy and our lives, and has brought about earth-shaking changes. More than a decade later, can we say that the crisis is over? Do we have the ability and confidence to deal with the next global crisis?
About the Author
Adam Tooze
He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has taught at Cambridge University and Yale University. He is currently a professor of history and director of the Center for European Studies at Columbia University. His research interests are 20th century and contemporary economic history, and he has extensive experience in political, ideological and military history. His representative work "The Price of Destruction" won the Wolfson History Book Prize and the Longman-Today History Book Prize. "The Flood" won the Financial Times and New Statesman 2014 Book of the Year and the Los Angeles Times History Book Award in 2015. "Crash" won the Lionel Gelber Award, The Economist 2018 Book of the Year, and The New York Times 2018 Book of the Year. His works have been translated into more than ten languages. In 2019, he was selected as one of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" by Foreign Policy magazine.
Wu Qiuyu is a translator of books on finance and law. His translations include The Human Era: The World We Change, Emperor Meiji: 1852-1912, and Gazing at God: Britain in World War I.
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