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1.The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by: Niall Ferguson November 13, 2008
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Light stuff, a bit of everything, hastily assembled for a quick buck while the credit crisis is still around. Niall Ferguson has stopped doing serious works for a long time, being too busy writing best-sellers.

2.Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity from: W.W. Norton & Co. November 17, 2008
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(Memo to those who do: I heard yesterday that he may be at work on a new book right now, so don't get too mad about your current disappointment...) As other reviewers have noted, this is NOT by Michael Lewis. Rather, the same guy who gave us Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street and The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story has worked through a variety of sources in search of the best reportage on past financial market panics. At the time Lewis was toiling on assembling this (the last story in the anthology is dated in January 2008), it must have been hard to imagine how topical this would become. Certainly, the readings offer clear insight, from many different points of view, on how financial manias emerge, grow, build and then burst, triggering, yes, panic. In light ... Read More

3.The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by: Naomi Klein June 24, 2008
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This well-researched book is clearly written and should be read by anyone wanting to understand world politics and economics.

4.Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by: Michael Lewis October 01, 1990
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First half = interesting. Second half = kinda boring. Lewis has inspired me to write a better insider's account of Wall Street.

5.The Great Crash of 1929 by: John Kenneth Galbraith April 30, 1997
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I keep this book around to read occasionally. My edition has a printing history going back to 1954. The stock market crash is a point in history that I've tried to understand. mmm...the bankers kept pumping money into the system...until they couldn't do it anymore. Who were these people and how did this happen? Well, today I picked it up again. According to Galbraith, the US economy was already in a Depression by October 1929 as the stock market reacts to the economy and never the reverse. It became fashionable for working people to get into the stock market. Before the crash, there were some signs of economic downturn, but no one expected the disaster it became. It was a bubble that had to be pricked. This sounds so familiar now. In John Kenneth Galbraith's able hands, the story is revealed. ... Read More

6.The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too by: James Galbraith August 05, 2008
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THE PREDATOR STATE Understanding the financial happenings is so important. We certainly didn't learn any of this in school; highschool anyway. I heard Kenneth Galbraith interviewed on KCET and placed my order, getting 2 gifts and reading one myself.

7.The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence by: Robert J. Samuelson November 11, 2008
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If, as Robert J. Samuelson asserts, the "Great Inflation" has largely been forgotten, then this book renders an important service. It is hard for someone who lived through the years and events recounted here to believe that they have been forgotten, but perhaps it's so. Samuelson's book is generally excellent, but there are some problems: 1. The basic historical narrative is not as coherent as it might be. A more precise chronology of the development of inflation is needed. Too often the reader is taken through a decade or two of developments in one area too quickly to really understand them, and then transported back again 20 years to follow another train of events. In part this is because of the topical arrangement of the first three chapters, which might better have been combined into a single, slower chronological narrative. 2. ... Read More

8.Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics Series) by: Charles P. Kindleberger 1996-12
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Kindleberger who passed away before the current financial crisis wrote the best book I have read on financial crises. His analysis of boom and bust cycle is prescient. It is much superior to Morris' still excellent The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash and Shiller's mediocre The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It. Kindleberger thesis is that manias and panics result from the pro-cyclical changes in credit following the Hyman Minsky model. Credit expands during economic booms as creditors compete for market share. Credit expansions fuel asset bubbles. At a turning point, leveraged speculative borrowers can't service their debt and have to liquidate their collateral (dubbed "Minsky Moment"). Asset bubbles burst. Economy slows down. Credit ... Read More

9.The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs by: Charles D Ellis December 01, 2008
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As a person outside of the financial industry, I found the book to reveal an interesting glimpse into the history of the most venerated firm in Wall Street, from its humble inception to the present days. Along the way, you find glimpses of strong personalities that shine through the anonymity of team-oriented culture and also tragedies (e.g., the mishandled prosecution of Bob Freeman). A fascinating book.

10.The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm by: Robert F. Bruner, Sean D. Carr August 31, 2007
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While the book certainly has some weaknesses, it is still a remarkable and readable one, providing very interesting perspectives on credit crises.

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