Crashed

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Lionel Gelber Prize-winner Adam Tooze offers a vital reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis, revealing it as a pivotal global event with profound, lasting consequences. Tooze meticulously demonstrates how the financial upheaval, far from being localized, spiraled across international markets and economies, fundamentally reshaping global governance. This acclaimed work connects the crisis and its decade-long aftermath directly to today's headlines—from banking regulations to trade wars—providing an essential historical perspective on the roots of current economic and political realities.