Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises 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）

　　"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.

　　In September 2008 President George Bush could still describe the financial crisis as an incident local to Wall Street. In fact it was 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. In the United States and Europe, it caused a fundamental reconsideration of capitalist democracy, eventually leading to the war in the Ukraine, the chaos of Greece, Brexit, and Trump.

　　It was the greatest crisis to have struck Western societies since the end of the Cold War, but was it inevitable? And is it over? 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 of China, and global struggles over fossil fuels.

　　Finally, Tooze asks, given this history, what now are the prospects for a liberal, stable, and coherent world order?