Great Recession/Bibliography

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The Financial Crisis Inquiry, Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States, US Government Printing Office, January 2011,

"An ocean apart? Comparing transatlantic responses to the financial crisis" Papers of a conference organized by the Bank of Italy, Bruegel and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, with the support of the European Commission, 10-11 September 2009. {For the 2011 versions of the papers see Pisani-Ferry below).

The Crisis Aftermath: New Regulatory Paradigms. Centre for Economic Policy Research March 2012

Acharya, Viral and Richardson, Matthew (eds): Restoring Financial Stability: How To Repair a Failed System, John Wiley &Sons, 2009.

Augur, Phillip: Chasing Alpha: How Reckless Growth and Unchecked Ambition Ruined the City's Golden Decade, Bodley Head, 2009

Baily, Martin Neil: Perspectives on the Economy, Testimony Prepared for a Hearing of United States House of Representatives Committee on the Budget, July 1 2010[1]

Blake, David: Financial Market Analysis, McGraw Hill 1990

Bookstaber, Richard: Demon of our own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds and the Perils of Financial Innovation, Wiley 2007

Brown, Gordon: Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalisation, Simon and Schuster, 2011

Cassidy, John: How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities, Allen Lane 2009.

Cooper, George: The Origin of Financial Crises, Harriman House, 2008

Malkiel, Burton: A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Norton & Co 2003

Minsky, Hyman P: Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, McGraw Hill, 1986

Morris, Charles: Billion Dollar Meltdown, Perseus Books 2008

Pisani-Ferry, Jean, Posen, Adam and Saccomanni Fabrizio (editors) "An ocean apart? Comparing transatlantic responses to the financial crisis, Bruegel/Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011.

Patterson, Scott: The Qants: How a New Breed of Maths Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It", Crown Business, 2010

Rajan, Raghuram: Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, Princeton University Press, 2010

Rodrik, Dani Guns, Drugs, and Financial Markets Project Syndicate April 2008 [2]

Smith, David The Age of Instability: The Global Financial Crisis and What Comes Next, Profile Books, 2010

Sorkin, Andrew: Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street, Allen Lane 2009

Swagel, Phillip: The Financial Crisis: an Inside View, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2009 [3]

Taleb, Nicholas: Fooled by Randomness, Random House 2004

Tett, Gillian: Fool's Gold, Little Brown, 2009 (NYT review[4])

Triana, Pablo: Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial System?, John Wiley, 2009

Wolf, Martin: Fixing Global Finance, Yale Unniversity Press, 2009