{"id":5388,"count":17,"description":"The financial crisis that roiled the world in 2008 inspired a number of new books and writing on financial crises, crashes and depressions.\r\n\r\nOur interviews with experts include Eric Maskin, one of the winners of the 2007 Nobel economics prize, examining how well equipped economic theory is to predict a financial crisis. Gary Gorton, a finance professor at Yale, also provided his reading list on financial crises<\/a>.\r\n\r\nIn terms of a historical perspective, both\u00a0Robert Barro<\/a> of Harvard and Christina Romer<\/a> of Berkeley, who also served as Barack Obama's top economic adviser, chose their top books on the lessons from the Great Depression<\/a>. Robert Skidelsky recommended his best books on an economist who has made quite a comeback since 2008, John Maynard Keynes<\/a>.\r\n\r\nPolitical scientist Francis Fukuyama talked to us about the political aspects of the 2008 financial crisis and Wall Street fund manager and Bloomberg columnist Barry Ritholtz looked at its causes. <\/a>Barry Eichengreen, an economist at Berkeley, recommended books to better understand the Euro. <\/a>\r\n\r\nOur most recommended books on financial crises include Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff's This Time is Different<\/em><\/a>, a perennial favourite for the data it provides. If you're more one for anecdotes about financial mishaps, few do it better than Charles Kindleberger's Manias, Panics and Crashes<\/em><\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/economics\/financial-crisis\/","name":"Financial Crisis","slug":"financial-crisis","taxonomy":"category","parent":5306,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5306"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=5388"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=5388"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=5388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}