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by Adam Tooze
Who uses, recommends or left Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
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It's the work of a real historian who has a very, very wide view and an exceptional knack for bringing everything together. He writes beautifully.
Five Books interview on the world economy
2023-05-16·fivebooks.com ↗
This is a great history of what lead up to the 2008 financial crisis, and its effects down, basically, to the time of writing. What makes it so good is that Tooze has a mastery of the material on, it seems, every possible scale.
His monthly "Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur" post for May 2019 — the books he read that month and feels he can recommend.
2019-05-31·bactra.org ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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