The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned--and Have Still

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

From the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times, aÂ brilliant tour dâ€™horizon of the new global economy and its trajectory

There have been many books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the financial and economic crisis which began in 2007â€“8. The Shifts and the Shocks is not another detailed history of the crisis, but the most persuasive and complete account yet published of what the crisis should teach us about modern economies and economics.

The book identifies the origin of the crisis in the complex interaction between globalization, hugely destabilizing global imbalances and our dangerously fragile financial system. In the eurozone, these sources of instability were multiplied by the tragically defective architecture of the monetary union. It also shows how much of the orthodoxy that shaped monetary and financial policy before the crisis occurred was complacent and wrong. In doing so, it mercilessly reveals the failures of the financial, political and intellectual elites who ran the system.

The book also examines what has been done to reform the financial and monetary systems since the worst of the crisis passed. â€œAre we now on a sustainable course?â€ Wolf asks. â€œThe answer is no.â€ He explains with great clarity why â€œfurther crises seem certainâ€ and why the management of the eurozone in particular â€œguarantees a huge political crisis at some point in the future.â€ Wolf provides far more ambitious and comprehensive plans for reform than any currently being implemented.

Written with all the intellectual command and trenchant judgment that have made Martin Wolf one of the worldâ€™s most influential economic commentators, The Shifts and the Shocks matches impressive analysis with no-holds-barred criticism and persuasive prescription for a more stable future. It is a book no one with an interest in global affairs will want to neglect.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2014-09-11
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781594205446

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2014-09-11
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781594205446

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