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Financial Crisis

In-depth primer for both the expert and the amateur. Experts interviewed include Eichengreen, Barro and Rodrik. Wide range of hand-picked background articles

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FiveBooks Interviews

  • Robert Barro on The Lessons of the Great Depression

    The Harvard Professor takes issue with some common assumptions about the Great Depression, and how America got out of it. And he doesn't mince his words about the present, 'the stimulus package was very stupid; it was awful'

  • Robert Skidelsky on Keynes

    Emeritus Professor and biographer of Keynes talks about the much discussed economist, and his relevance to today's crisis. For the new school of classical economists, 'Keynes is the ideal stick with which to hit them'.

  • Eric Maskin on Economic theory and the financial crisis

    2007 Nobel Economics Prize winner Eric Maskin says that contrary to popular perception, economic theory did a very good job of predicting the financial crisis, it's just that no one was paying any attention

  • Gary Gorton on Financial Crises

    Yale Professor of Management and Finance says today’s financial crisis may feel like a unique event, but in the US and in the UK crises are historically common. And we have a history of similar responses

  • Charles Morris on Crashes

    The former banker and author of 12 books on economics says that over the last 30 years economics has been colonising every science. "Even something like education all comes down to incentives"

  • John Lanchester on Understanding High Finance

    The journalist and author chooses five books to help the layman understand the world of economics. Worries that since the crash, little has been done to restrain the banks and protect states from further bailouts

  • Barry Eichengreen on the Euro

    With hindsight, was the euro a good idea? Will it come through the present crisis intact or will any country decide to leave? And what happens if they do? All this and more answered by the economics professor

  • Dani Rodrik on Globalisation

    Political economist Dani Rodrik says the history of globalisation goes back not just to 1980, not just to 1945, not just to the ‘first era of globalisation’ in the 19th century – but all the way back to the Mongol conquests
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