Understanding the Financial Crisis 2008
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves 4.15 avg rating — 41,834 ratings
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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
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Michael Lewis
4.15 avg rating — 109,197 ratings 4. 
All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
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Bethany McLean
4.04 avg rating — 7,655 ratings 5. 
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy 4.11 avg rating — 5,081 ratings
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
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Liaquat Ahamed
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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
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Roger Lowenstein
4.20 avg rating — 30,804 ratings 
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
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Niall Ferguson
3.90 avg rating — 30,145 ratings 
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
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Paul Krugman
3.83 avg rating — 8,843 ratings 12. 
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
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Adam Tooze
4.28 avg rating — 4,042 ratings 
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Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy 3.88 avg rating — 4,042 ratings
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13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
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Simon Johnson
3.87 avg rating — 3,420 ratings 18. 
Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
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Matt Taibbi
4.16 avg rating — 9,538 ratings 19. 
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 4.08 avg rating — 69,677 ratings
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Predictable and Avoidable: Repairing Economic Dislocation and Preventing the Recurrence of Crisis
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Ivo Pezzuto
4.94 avg rating — 17 ratings 
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Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
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Charles Ferguson
4.11 avg rating — 491 ratings 29. 
I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay
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John Lanchester
3.99 avg rating — 2,383 ratings 30. 
What Has Government Done to Our Money? and The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar 4.27 avg rating — 2,860 ratings
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House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
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William D. Cohan
3.94 avg rating — 6,953 ratings 
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Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street
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Neil Barofsky
3.90 avg rating — 1,842 ratings 37. 
The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
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Scott Patterson
3.89 avg rating — 9,275 ratings 38. 
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon 3.96 avg rating — 1,550 ratings
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Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself
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Sheila Bair
3.91 avg rating — 487 ratings 
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
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Nate Silver
3.97 avg rating — 51,882 ratings 
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Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
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William Greider
4.16 avg rating — 766 ratings 47. 
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
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Matt Taibbi
4.21 avg rating — 7,582 ratings 48. 
Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
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Nouriel Roubini
3.84 avg rating — 2,837 ratings 
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On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System 3.80 avg rating — 3,095 ratings
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A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers 3.91 avg rating — 3,221 ratings
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The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash 3.72 avg rating — 1,209 ratings
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Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives
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Satyajit Das
3.85 avg rating — 1,906 ratings 
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The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street
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Robert Scheer
4.10 avg rating — 278 ratings 61. 
The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism
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David Harvey
4.02 avg rating — 1,483 ratings 
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Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
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James Rickards
3.97 avg rating — 4,991 ratings 64. 
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
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Philip Mirowski
4.15 avg rating — 291 ratings 65. 
Beyond Outrage: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it
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Robert B. Reich
4.07 avg rating — 2,130 ratings 66. 
Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager
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Keith Gessen
4.02 avg rating — 1,055 ratings 67. 
The Great Reflation: How Investors Can Profit from the New World of Money 3.59 avg rating — 119 ratings
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ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism
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Yves Smith
4.03 avg rating — 435 ratings 68. 
Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse
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Peter D. Schiff
3.78 avg rating — 1,156 ratings 68. 
12 Big Lies and the Prairies of Heaven: Or, the Curse of the Ceteris Paribus
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Tony Brauer
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 71. 
The U.S. Financial Crisis: Analysis and Ininterpretation
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Cheng Siwei
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 72. 
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Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit from the Economic Collapse
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Peter D. Schiff
3.82 avg rating — 937 ratings 74. 
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
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Kevin Phillips
3.73 avg rating — 1,037 ratings 75. 
Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis
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Paul Muolo
3.73 avg rating — 132 ratings 75. 
A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation 3.92 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
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The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong With Banking and What to Do About It
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Anat Admati
3.84 avg rating — 750 ratings 78. 
Economics in One Lesson 1st edition by Henry Hazlitt (2008) Hardcover
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Henry Hazlitt
4.17 avg rating — 21,134 ratings 80. 
The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
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Rebecca D. Costa
3.97 avg rating — 574 ratings 80. 
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The Global Gamble: Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance
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Peter Gowan
4.33 avg rating — 39 ratings 84. 
The Origin of Financial Crises: Central Banks, Credit Bubbles, and the Efficient Market Fallacy
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George Cooper
4.07 avg rating — 579 ratings 84. 
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Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System
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Viral V. Acharya
3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings 88. 
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future 4.02 avg rating — 9,789 ratings
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Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House
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Richard Wolffe
3.51 avg rating — 180 ratings 90. 
Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation
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George G. Szpiro
3.88 avg rating — 192 ratings 90. 
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History 4.07 avg rating — 7,396 ratings
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Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
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Charles Seife
3.68 avg rating — 1,569 ratings 94. 
No Way to Run an Economy: Why the System Failed and How to Put It Right: Why the System Failed and How to Put It Right
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Graham Turner
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Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything
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John Mauldin
3.71 avg rating — 913 ratings 97. 
The Economics of Ego Surplus: A Novel About the Global Economy
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Paul McDonnold
3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings 97. 
Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street 3.50 avg rating — 150 ratings
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From Wall Street With Love: Be Careful of What You Wish For
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Leigh Boyer
3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings 97. 
The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
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Howard Marks
4.33 avg rating — 15,602 ratings