Ranked: What Goes Into An Economic Crisis?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: What Goes Into An Economic Crisis?


This list contains the background understanding for why crises occur, general crisis and specific crisis, and what to do about them.  

The Varieties of Crises
Crisis of Capitalism
  1. Capitalism: A Conversation In Critical Theory by Nancy Fraser, and Rahel Jarggi

Basis For Economic Crisis


World Financial Crisis
  1. (Circa 20st Century - 2018 C.E.) Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze

Basis For Financial Crisis
  1. The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It by Anat Admati, Martin Hellwig


U.S.A. Economic Crisis 

Russian Economic Crisis
2007-2009 Crisis
  1. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  2. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
  3. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman

Great Depression

Africa - 20th Century
  1. The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai

Various Crises
  1. This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart, and Kenneth S. Rogoff
  2. (Circa Late 20th-Early 21st Century) Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity by Michael Lewis
  3. The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
  4. Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky
  5. (Circa 20th Century) The Evolutionary Transition To Capitalism edited by Kazimierz Z. Poznański

Crisis Management