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6 book picks worth a look

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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Michael Lewis · 2009

It follows the handful of investors who saw the collapse coming and the institutions that escaped blame, making the question of who was responsible vivid and readable for a general reader.

The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe

Joseph E. Stiglitz · 2016

It connects the euro crisis and the bailout programmes to the squeeze on wages, public services and household security that ordinary citizens experienced.

And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability

Yanis Varoufakis · 2001

A readable insider account that frames the euro crisis as a structural clash between strong and weak national economies locked in one currency, explaining the mechanics for newcomers without jargon.

All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis

Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera · 2010

It traces the crisis back through the bankers, regulators and politicians who enabled it, directly addressing who bore responsibility and who walked away.

The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned, and Have Still to Learn, from the Financial Crisis

Martin Wolf · 2014

A clear, narrative-minded account of why the recovery was so weak and uneven across countries and households, written for the serious general reader rather than the specialist.

The Euro Trap: On Bursting Bubbles, Budgets, and Beliefs

Hans-Werner Sinn · 2014

A clear, opinionated explanation of how capital flowed from core to periphery inside the euro and why the resulting imbalances turned into a crisis of competing national economies.

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