The Great Crashes

<b>Linda Yueh </b>is Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall University of Oxford and Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School. She is also Visiting Professor at LSE IDEAS and was Visiting Professor of Economics at Peking University. The former Economics Editor at Bloomberg TV she also hosted <i>Talking Business with Linda Yueh </i>as Chief Business Correspondent for BBC News. She writes for <i>The Times The New York Times </i>and the <i>Financial Times </i>and has advised the World Economic Forum in Davos the World Bank the European Commission and the Asian Development Bank. She has recently been appointed by HM Treasury to the Independent Review Panel on Ring-fencing and Proprietary Trading to examine banking crises and advise the government on mitigating the next one. She is the author of two books; <i>The Great Economists </i>and<i> The Great Crashes.</i> <b>The perfect primer on the worst economic disasters of the past 100 years</b> <b>Engrossing</b>... [one of] the 75 best books for summer 2023 Linda Yueh's new book [is] <b>almost alarmingly timely</b> as if she were tanking the global economy as the mother of all guerrilla marketing stunts Best new books on economics: <b>An important book to keep us all on our toes </b>when complacency starts to creep in again <b>Cogent analysis</b> <b>Linda Yueh's analysis of what past financial crises have in common is an important contribution that can help society anticipate and tackle potential crashes in the future</b> <b>Fascinating well-written and authoritative </b> <b>A first point of entry for anybody who wants to learn how the world economy sleep-walked into multiple crashes over the last century</b> <b>An accessible and insightful overview of modern financial crises incorporating both historical detail and thoughtful analysis</b> <b>Linda</b> <b>provides many with a very readable summary of all the great crises but also more importantly derives the big lessons and how to have a better policy framework</b> <b>to avoid getting caught up in too much this time it is different when the next big risks appear</b> <p><b>'A masterclass in spotting the early signs of a crisis' </b>Nouriel Roubini<br><br><b>'This is the historical perspective we need' </b>John Kay<br><br><b>'A first point of entry for anybody who wants to learn how the world sleep-walked into multiple crashes' </b>Daron Acemoglu<br><br><b>'Fascinating well-written and authoritative' </b>Tim Harford<br><br><b>-----------------------------------------------------------------</b><br><br><b>The global economy has weathered the most tumultuous century in modern financial history. </b><br><br>Since the Wall Street Crash in 1929 financial meltdowns have repeatedly sent shockwaves through our world. From the currency crises of the 1980s and 1990s to Japan's housing crash the dot com boom and bust the global financial meltdown the euro crisis and the COVID pandemic<i> The Great Crashes </i>tells the stories of ten of these historic events. They serve as a series of cautionary tales each with their own set of lessons to be learnt.<br><br>With clear-eyed analysis renowned economist Dr Linda Yueh extracts a three step framework to help recognise the early signs of a crash and mitigate the effects - all with the hope of preventing the worst mistakes of the past from being repeated in the next inevitable financial crisis. She warns about where the next one might come from and shows how her framework could contain it.<br><br><b>Combining her in-depth knowledge with compelling storytelling <i>The Great Crashes </i>is essential reading that offers urgent lessons for the modern world.<br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------</b><br><br>'An important contribution that can help society anticipate and tackle potential crashes in the future' <b>Christine Lagarde</b></p>