ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Adam Tooze, winner of the Wolfson and Longman History Today Prizes, is 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, The Guardian , and the Wall Street Journal.

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Table of Contents

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Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The First Crisis of a Global Age

Part I: Gathering Storm

Chapter 1: The “Wrong Crisis”
Chapter 2: Subprime
Chapter 3: Transatlantic Finance
Chapter 4: Eurozone
Chapter 5: Multipolar World

Part II: The Global Crisis

Chapter 6: “The Worst Financial Crisis in Global History”
Chapter 7: Bailouts
Chapter 8: “The Big Thing”: Global Liquidity
Chapter 9: Europe’s Forgotten Crisis: Eastern Europe
Chapter 10: The Wind from the East: China
Chapter 11: G20
Chapter 12: Stimulus
Chapter 13: Fixing Finance

Part III: Eurozone

Chapter 14: Greece 2010: Extend and Pretend
Chapter 15: A Time of Debt
Chapter 16: G-Zero World
Chapter 17: Doom Loop
Chapter 18: Whatever It Takes

Part IV: Aftershocks

Chapter 19: American Gothic
Chapter 20: Taper Tantrum
Chapter 21: “F*** the Eu”: The Ukraine Crisis
Chapter 22: #thisisacoup
Chapter 23: The Fear Projects
Chapter 24: Trump
Chapter 25: The Shape of Things to Come

Notes

Index

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