Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crisis Changed the World

　　「對於現行體系如何導致危機、又如何因應，本書提出了獨到的精闢見解……並揭示出歐洲和美國財經體系是如何盤根錯節地交織、互相牽引著。」────《紐約時報》書評



　　Adam Tooze 曾斷言 2008 年經濟大衰退會直接導致全球面臨金融危機，時至今日，證實這位獲獎肯定的經濟歷史學家所言不虛。儘管過了十年，當年的經濟危機仍舊餘波蕩漾，持續帶有影響力。



　　2008 年 9 月，時任美國總統布希宣稱這是場只關係到華爾街的經濟危機，事實上，這無疑給了全球經濟一大重擊，無論英國、歐洲的財金市場，乃至亞洲、中東和拉丁美洲的工廠及造船廠皆大受影響，造成美國及歐洲當地開始反思民主資本主義的正當性，甚至進一步導致烏克蘭爆發戰爭、希臘財政混亂、英國脫毆、川普出頭等重大事件。



　　本書將全球經濟議題分成下列主題，逐一探討，提出嶄新獨到的見解：

　　•全球經濟發展及其伴隨的風險

　　•全球經濟體系、政商關係與各國勢力影響下潛藏的不平等交流

　　•因社群網站活躍引發的網路經濟危機

　　•美國中產階級所面臨的困境

　　•中國的崛起

　　•全球石油危機



　　最後，Adam Tooze 反思，對西方社會而言，經濟大衰退儼然是冷戰過後的最大危機，然而，這真的是無法事先防堵的嗎？而我們又真的熬過這個危機了嗎？而在這樣的歷史背景下，我們又要怎麼確保社會穩定，避免世界失序？（文 / 博客來編譯）

WINNER OF THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK

"An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One of the great strengths of Tooze's book is to demonstrate the deeply intertwined nature of the European and American financial systems."--The New York Times Book Review

From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shockwaves being felt around the world today.

We live in a world where dramatic shifts in the domestic and global economy command the headlines, from rollbacks in US banking regulations to tariffs that may ignite international trade wars. But current events have deep roots, and the key to navigating today's roiling policies lies in the events that started it all--the 2008 economic crisis and its aftermath. Despite initial attempts to downplay the crisis as a local incident, what happened on Wall Street beginning in 2008 was, in fact, a dramatic caesura of global significance that spiraled around the world, from the financial markets of the UK and Europe to the factories and dockyards of Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, forcing a rearrangement of global governance. With a historian's eye for detail, connection, and consequence, Adam Tooze brings the story right up to today's negotiations, actions, and threats--a much-needed perspective on a global catastrophe and its long-term consequences.

Adam Tooze is the author of Wages of Destruction, winner of the Wolfson and Longman History Today Prize. He is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University. He formerly taught at Yale University, where he was Director of International Security Studies, and at the University of Cambridge. He has worked in executive development with several major corporations and contributed to the National Intelligence Council. He has written and reviewed for Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, TheGuardian, the Sunday Telegraph, TheWall Street Journal, Die Zeit, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Tageszeitung and Spiegel Magazine, New Left Review, and the London Review of Books.