The Age of Instability by David Smith
The near-collapse of the global banking system was not supposed to happen. In an era of financial globalisation and sophisticated modelling of risk, the manias, panics and crashes of the past had apparently become historical curiosities. This book asks how did an apparently clear blue economic sky mask the approaching ferocious storm.
As a guide through the treacherous and shifting landscape of the crisis, Smith has excellent credentialsHe is a fine economics columnist: digestible for the general reader, but meaty enough to interest the cognoscenti, and - unlike many of those attempting to scrawl down their first drafts of the history of the past few years - he has no particular agenda, whether ideological, commercial or personal... Smith gives fair, even-handed treatment to some of the key controversies -- Ed Crooks * FT *
as good a practical guide and prospectus as the Queen could wish to read -- Christopher Fildes * Sunday Times *
as good a practical guide and prospectus as the Queen could wish to read -- Christopher Fildes * Sunday Times *
DAVID SMITH is economics editor of the Sunday Times and regularly comments on the radio and television on economics. He is the author of Free Lunch and The Dragon and the Elephant (both Profile).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846683107 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846683106 |
| Title | The Age of Instability |
| Author | David Smith |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-03-18 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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