Crashed

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.

Provides the most comprehensive account of the 2008 crisis and its global political consequences — Crashed demonstrates that the crisis was primarily a dollar funding crisis (European banks had borrowed trillions in short-term dollar markets) and that the political consequences (Tea Party, Eurozone crisis, Brexit, populism) all flow from the crisis's unequal resolution.