I.          UNITED STATES

 

Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback 2010)

 

Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (W.W. Norton & Co, New York 2010)

 

Lawrence J McDonald and Patrick Robinson, A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers (Crown Business US 2009)

 

David Wessel, In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic (Crown Business US)

 

Lawrence G. McDonald, A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers (2010)

 

William D. Cohan, House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street (2010)

 

David McCormick, The Greatest Trade Ever (2010)

 

Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, All the Devils are Here: Unmasking the Men who Bankrupted the World (Portfolio London and New York 2010)

 

Charles Gasparino,The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System (2010)

 

Alan C. Greenberg and Mark Singer, The Rise and Fall Of Bear Stearns (2011)

 

Greg Farrell, Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America (2011)

 

Jared Dillian, Street Freak: Money and Madness at Lehman Brothers (2012)

 

Neil Barofsky, Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street ()

 

Roddy Boyd, Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide (2011)

 

Stephanie Madoff Mack, The End Of Normal' - The Stigma Of Being A Madoff (2011)

 

Autobiographies                Alistair Darling, Buy Back from the Brink: 1000 Days at Number 11 (2012)

 

Gordon Brown, Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalisation (Simon & Schuster 2010)

 

Henry M. Paulson Jr., On the Brink - Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System (2011)

 

Timothy Geithner, Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises (2014)

 

Martin Wolf, Fixing Global Finance (2010)

 

Sheila Bair, Bull By The Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself (Free Press, 2012)

 

II.         UNITED KINGDOM

 

Paul Mason, Meltdown – The End of the Age of Greed (Verso London 2009)

 

Alex Brummer, The Crunch – How Greed and Incompetence Sparked the Credit Crisis (Random House London 2009)

 

Michael Lewis (ed), Panic – The Story of Modern Financial Insanity (Penguin London 2008).

 

Charles R Morris, The US$2 Trillion Meltdown (New York 2008)

 

Robert Peston, Who Runs Britain? and Who’s to Blame for Economic Mess We’re In? (Hodder & Stoughton London 2008)

 

George Soros, The Crash of 2009 and What it Means (Public Affairs New York 2008, 2009)

 

III.        EUROZONE

 

Matthew Lynn, Bust Greece, the Euro, and the Sovereign Debt Crisis (2010)

 

Costas Lapavitsas, Crisis in the Eurozone (2012)

 

Heikki Patomäki, The Great Eurozone Disaster (2013)

 

Kaarlo Tuori and Klaus Tuori, The Eurozone Crisis: A Constitutional Analysis (2014)

 

Jean Pisani-Ferry, The Euro Crisis and its Aftermath (2014)

 

Martin Wolf, The Shifts and the Shocks (Allen Lane Penguin 2014)

 

IV.        FINANCE

 

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan – The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Penguin  Books London 2007)

  

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2001)

 

Benoite Mandelbrot and Richard L Hudson, The (Mis) Behaviour of Markets – A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward (Profile Books London 2004, 2005 and 2008)

 

John Kay, The Long and Short of It (The Erasmus Press London 2009)

 

Paul Krugman, The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (Penguin Books

London 1999, 2008)

 

John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash 1929 (Penguin Books London 1954, reprinted 1992)

 

Eric J Weiner, The Shadow Market (One World 2010)

 

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder (1997)

 

V.        FINANCIAL CRISIS

 

Charles P Kindleberger, Manias, Panics, and Crashes – A History of Financial Crises (John Wiley US 4 ed 2000)

 

Didier Sornette, Why Stock Markets Crash – Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems (Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford 2003)

 

VI.        MONEY                                

 

David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2013)

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Michael McLeay, Amar Radia and Ryland Thomas , ‘Money creation in the modern economy’​

  

Philip Coggan, Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order (2012)

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VI.        GLOBALISATION       

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Martin Wolf, Why Globalization Works (2005)

 

Jeffrey Sachs, Common Wealth – Economics for a Crowded Planet (Penguin Books London 2009)

 

Joseph Stiglitz, Making Globalisation Work (Allen Lane London 2006)

 

Geffry A Frieden, Global Capitalism – Its Fall and Rise in the 20th Century (W W Norton New York 2006)

 

Michael Klare, Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet – How Scarce Energy is Creating a New World Order (A One World Book Oxford 2008)