List of Great Recession articles
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HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images The End of Influence
For as long as many can remember, the United States has been the country with money, influence, and power. But all that is changing, write Brad DeLong and Stephen Cohen in their new book, The End of Influence. FP excerpts exclusively here.
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PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images How the Tricks That Crashed Wall Street Can Save the World
As countries including the United States reform their financial sectors, they should look inside the banks themselves for the tools for the fix.
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JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff know financial crises. In the preamble to their book, recommended by FP Big Thinkers Willem Buiter and Mohamed El-Erian, the two trace back the history of how, with each shock and economic trouble, the world believes that this time is different. It's not.
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Copyright Edward B. Koren, printed by permission of Princeton University Press Animal Spirits
In a chapter of their new book, recommended by FP Big Thinker Paul Collier, George A. Akerlof and Robert Shiller explain why stories -- the human narratives we use to make sense of a complicated world -- are vital to understanding economics.