3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Adam Tooze's 2018 comprehensive history of the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath — arguing that the crisis was a crisis of global dollar funding rather than simply a banking crisis, and tracing its political consequences through the rise of populism.
Michael Lewis's 2010 account of the handful of investors who saw the 2008 financial crisis coming and bet against mortgage-backed securities — told through the eccentric characters who understood what most of Wall Street missed.
Scott Patterson's 2010 narrative of the quantitative traders whose mathematical models dominated Wall Street before failing catastrophically in 2008 — covering Jim Simons, Ken Griffin, Peter Muller, Cliff Asness, and Boaz Weinstein.