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by Martin Wolf · 24 Nov 2015 · 524pp · 143,993 words
Martin Wolf THE SHIFTS AND THE SHOCKS What we’ve learned – and have still to learn – from the financial crisis Contents List of Figures Preface: Why I
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BOOK 1. Hyman P. Minsky, Inflation, Recession and Economic Policy (Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1982), p. xi. 2. Martin Wolf, Fixing Global Finance (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press and Yale University Press, 2008 and 2010). 3. Martin Wolf, Why Globalization Works (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004), ch. 13. 4. The ‘great
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Institute, ‘Sovereign Wealth Fund Rankings’, http://www.swfinstitute.org/fund-rankings/. 9. The role of the global imbalances in the crisis was the theme of Martin Wolf, Fixing Global Finance (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 and 2010), especially ch. 8 of the revised edition. See also Òscar Jordà, Moritz
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the crisis, see Paulson, On the Brink, and Alistair Darling, Back from the Brink: 1,000 Days at Number 11 (London: Atlantic Books, 2011). 5. Martin Wolf, ‘Session 3 (Round Table) Financial Globalisation, Growth and Asset Prices’, in International Symposium: Globalisation, Inflation and Monetary Policy, Banque de France, March 2008, http://www
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for $2 a Share’, Financial Times, 16 March 2008. 12. Ben White, ‘Buoyant Bear Stearns Shrugs Off Subprime Woes’, Financial Times, 16 March 2007. 13. Martin Wolf, ‘The Rescue of Bear Stearns Marks Liberalisation’s Limit’, Financial Times, 25 March 2008. 14. Paulson, On the Brink, p. 170, and Krishna Guha, Chris
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2013, http://www.voxeu.org/article/when-time-austerity, provides a compelling analysis of the high cost of fiscal austerity in the UK. See also Martin Wolf, ‘How Austerity has Failed’, New York Review of Books, 11 July 2013, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/jul/11/how-austerity-has-failed
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research, McKinsey Global Institute, January 2012, http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/mgi/research/financial_markets/uneven_progress_on_the_path_to_growth, p. 3. 60. Martin Wolf, ‘Mind the Gap: Perils of Forecasting Output’, Financial Times, 9 December 2011. 61. Irving Fisher, ‘The Debt-Deflation Theory of Great Depressions’, Econometrica (1933). 62
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’, 26–27 June 2010, http://www.g20.utoronto.ca/2010/to-communique.html. 68. Paul Samuelson, Economics, first edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1948). 69. Martin Wolf, ‘The Toxic Legacy of the Greek Crisis’, Financial Times, 18 June 2013, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b31dd248-d785-11e2-a26a-00144feab7de.html
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, ‘The Euro: Love it or Leave it?’, 4 May 2010, http://www.voxeu.org/article/eurozone-breakup-would-trigger-mother-all-financial-crises. See also Martin Wolf, ‘A Permanent Precedent’, Financial Times, 17 May 2012, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/614df5de-9ffe-11e1-94ba-00144feabdc0.html. 21. The term ‘Ordoliberalism
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de Grauwe, ‘The Governance of a Fragile Eurozone’, CEPS Working Documents, Economic Policy, 4 May 2011, http://www.ceps.eu/book/governance-fragile-Eurozone, and Martin Wolf, ‘Be Bold Mario, Put Out that Fire’, Financial Times, 25 October 2011, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bd60ab78-fe6e-11e0-bac4-00144feabdc0.html
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.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1410072, p. 248. See also Raguram Rajan, ‘Bankers’ Pay is Deeply Flawed’, Financial Times, 9 January 2008, and Martin Wolf, ‘Why and How should we Regulate Pay in the Financial Sector?’, in Turner et al., The Future of Finance, ch. 9. 58. Adair Turner, The
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Chief Stays Bullish on Buy-outs’ Financial Times, 9 July 2007, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/80e2987a-2e50-11dc-821c-0000779fd2ac.html. 4. Martin Wolf, Fixing Global Finance (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press and Yale University Press, 2010), especially ch. 8. 5. Herbert Stein, ‘Herb Stein’s Unfamiliar
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, founded under President William Jefferson Clinton, is distinct from the Council of Economic Advisers, founded in 1946 under President Harry Truman. 7. Lawrence Summers and Martin Wolf, ‘A Conversation on New Economic Thinking’, Bretton Woods Conference, Institute for New Economic Thinking, 8 April 2011, http://ineteconomics.org/video/bretton-woods/larry-summers
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-and-martin-wolf-new-economic-thinking. 8. Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, also stressed the intellectual debt of central bankers to the journalist, Walter Bagehot, in
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(New York: W. W. Norton, 2012). For a sceptical discussion of the argument that the UK’s pre-crisis level of output was unsustainable, see Martin Wolf, ‘How the Financial Crisis Changed Our World’, 2013 Wincott Memorial Lecture, http://www.wincott.co.uk/lectures/2013.html. 5. International Monetary Fund, ‘The Dog
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Taylor, ‘When is the Time for Austerity?’, 20 July 2013, Vox, http://www.voxeu.org/article/when-time-austerity. 22. These arguments were developed in Martin Wolf, ‘How Austerity has Failed’, The New York Review of Books, vol. LX, no. 12, 11 July–4 August 2013, pp. 20–22, http://www.nybooks
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Report 2012/2013, 23 June 2013, http://www.bis.org/publ/arpdf/ar2013e.htm. 27. See on this Martin Wolf, ‘The Role of Fiscal Deficits in De-leveraging’, 25 July 2012, http://blogs.ft.com/martin-wolf-exchange/2012/07/25/getting-out-of-debt-by-adding-debt. 28. Robert Kuttner, Debtors’ Prison: The
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, http://www.social-europe.eu/2014/03/german-constitutional-court. 10. O’Rourke and Taylor, ‘Cross of Euros’, p. 176. 11. This section draws from Martin Wolf, ‘Why the Baltic States are no Model’, Financial Times, 30 April 2013, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/090bd38e-b0c7-11e2-80f9-00144feabdc0.html
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. 12. Olivier Blanchard, ‘Lessons from Latvia’, 11 June 2013, http://blog-imfdirect.imf.org/2012/06/11/lessons-from-latvia. 13. This section draws from Martin Wolf, ‘The German Model is not for Export’, Financial Times, 7 May 2013, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aacd1be0-b637-11e2-93ba-00144feabdc0.html
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-Driven Austerity in the Eurozone and its Implications’, 21 February 2013, http://www.voxeu.org/article/panic-driven-austerity-Eurozone-and-its-implications. See also Martin Wolf, ‘Be Bold, Mario, Put Out that Fire’, Financial Times, 25 October 2011, www.ft.com. 17. Alex Barker ‘Marathon Talks Seal EU Banking Union’, Financial
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and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013). 30. Mervyn King, ‘Banking from Bagehot to Basel, and Back Again’, pp. 16–17. 31. This is drawn from Martin Wolf, ‘Failing Elites Threaten our Future’, Financial Times, 14 January 2014, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cfc1eb1c-76d8-11e3-807e-00144feabdc0.html. References Abiad
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Be the New Normal’, 15 December 2013, Financial Times. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/87cb15ea-5d1a-11e3-a558-00144feabdc0.html. Summers, Lawrence and Martin Wolf. ‘A Conversation on New Economic Thinking’, Bretton Woods Conference, Institute for New Economic Thinking, 8 April 2011. http://ineteconomics.org/video/bretton-woods/larry-summers
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/cms/s/0/614df5de-9ffe-11e1-94ba-00144feabdc0.html. Wolf, Martin. ‘The Role of Fiscal Deficits in Deleveraging’, 25 July 2012. http://blogs.ft.com/martin-wolf-exchange/2012/07/25/getting-out-of-debt-by-adding-debt. Wolf, Martin. ‘Afterword: How the Financial Crises Have Changed the World’, in Robert C
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Servant Economy: Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class
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Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order
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Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World
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Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
by Satyajit Das · 14 Oct 2011 · 741pp · 179,454 words
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
by Tom Burgis · 7 Sep 2020 · 476pp · 139,761 words
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words
Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet
by Roger Scruton · 30 Apr 2014 · 426pp · 118,913 words
The Euro and the Battle of Ideas
by Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James and Jean-Pierre Landau · 3 Aug 2016 · 586pp · 160,321 words
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Rise of the Middle Kingdom
by Martin Jacques · 12 Nov 2009 · 859pp · 204,092 words
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams · 1 Oct 2015 · 357pp · 95,986 words
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
by David Harvey · 3 Apr 2014 · 464pp · 116,945 words
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--And a Plan to Stop It
by Lawrence Lessig · 4 Oct 2011 · 538pp · 121,670 words
The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism
by Calum Chace · 17 Jul 2016 · 477pp · 75,408 words
What Went Wrong: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . And What Other Countries Got Right
by George R. Tyler · 15 Jul 2013 · 772pp · 203,182 words
The Making of Global Capitalism
by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin · 8 Oct 2012 · 823pp · 206,070 words
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
by Adam Tooze · 31 Jul 2018 · 1,066pp · 273,703 words
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
by Philip Mirowski · 24 Jun 2013 · 662pp · 180,546 words
Who Rules the World?
by Noam Chomsky
The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong With Banking and What to Do About It
by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig · 15 Feb 2013 · 726pp · 172,988 words
Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire
by Bruce Nussbaum · 5 Mar 2013 · 385pp · 101,761 words
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost Its Way
by Steve Richards · 14 Jun 2017 · 323pp · 95,492 words
Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity
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Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
by David Rothkopf · 18 Mar 2008 · 535pp · 158,863 words
The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times
by Lionel Barber · 5 Nov 2020
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
by Gary Gerstle · 14 Oct 2022 · 655pp · 156,367 words
Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm · 10 May 2010 · 491pp · 131,769 words
The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
by Edward Chancellor · 15 Aug 2022 · 829pp · 187,394 words
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
by Chrystia Freeland · 11 Oct 2012 · 481pp · 120,693 words
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class
by Joel Kotkin · 11 May 2020 · 393pp · 91,257 words
Civilization: The West and the Rest
by Niall Ferguson · 28 Feb 2011 · 790pp · 150,875 words
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
by Sebastian Mallaby · 10 Oct 2016 · 1,242pp · 317,903 words
The Bank That Lived a Little: Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market
by Philip Augar · 4 Jul 2018 · 457pp · 143,967 words
The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All
by Martin Sandbu · 15 Jun 2020 · 322pp · 84,580 words
Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist
by Alex Zevin · 12 Nov 2019 · 767pp · 208,933 words
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
by Yascha Mounk · 26 Sep 2023
Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies
by Judith Stein · 30 Apr 2010 · 497pp · 143,175 words