The Shifts and the Shocks: What we’ve learned – and have still to learn – from the financial crisis

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		The Shifts and the Shocks: What we’ve learned – and have still to learn – from the financial crisis
		The Shifts and the Shocks: What we’ve learned – and have still to learn – from the financial crisis

In The Shifts and the Shocks, Martin Wolf - one of the world's most influential economic commentators and author of Why Globalization Works - presents his controversial and highly original analysis of the economic course of the last seven years

There have been many books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the financial and economic crisis which began in 2007-8. The Shifts and the Shocks is not another detailed history of the crisis, but the most persuasive and complete account yet published of what the crisis should teach us us about modern economies and economics.

The book identifies the origin of the crisis in the complex interaction between globalization, hugely destabilizing global imbalances and our dangerously fragile financial system. In the eurozone, these sources of instability were multiplied by the tragically defective architecture of the monetary union  . It also shows how much of the orthodoxy that shaped monetary and financial policy before the crisis occurred was complacent and wrong. In doing so, it mercilessly reveals the failures of the financial, political and intellectual elites who ran the system.

The book also examines what has been done to reform the financial and monetary systems since the worst of the crisis passed. 'Are we now on a sustainable course?' Wolf asks. 'The answer is no.' He explains with great clarity why 'further crises seem certain' and why the management of the eurozone in particular 'guarantees a huge political crisis at some point in the future.' Wolf provides far more ambitious and comprehensive plans for reform than any currently being implemented.

Written with all the intellectual command and trenchant judgement that have made Martin Wolf one of the world's most influential economic commentators, The Shifts and the Shocks matches impressive analysis with no-holds-barred criticism and persuasive prescription for a more stable future. It is a book no-one with an interest in global affairs will want to neglect.

"We have been inundated with books about the 'financial' aspects of the crisis. There have also been many books about specific institutions or memoirs by retired policy-makers. We need something different. There are two dimensions of the crisis that have received surprisingly little treatment. One is the link between developments in the macro-economy and the behaviour of the financial sector. The other is the global dimension of the crisis. Both these lie at the heart of Martin Wolf's analysis of the causes of the crisis and of his proposals to reduce the risk of another crisis. For these two reasons this is an important book that will be influential. Most important of all, it is in my view the right analysis and remedy" Mervyn King

"To think straight about the causes and solutions of the financial crisis we must reject orthodox assumptions that more finance and global financial integration are limitlessly beneficial. The Shifts and the Shocks does just that, providing an intellectually sparkling and vital account of why the crisis occurred, and of the radical reforms needed if we are to avoid a future repeat" Adair Turner

"Martin Wolf is unsurpassed in the world of economic journalists. His superb book may be the best of all those spawned by the Great Recession. It is analytical and rigorous without ever succumbing to fatalism or complacency" Lawrence Summers

Martin Wolf is Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times. He has been visiting professor at Oxford and Nottingham universities, a fellow of the World Economic Forum in Davos, and a member of the UK's Vickers Commission on Banking, which reported in 2011. His books include Why Globalization Works and Fixing Global Finance. In 2000, he was awarded the CBE for services to financial journalism, and in 2012 he received the Ischia International Journalism Award.

网友对The Shifts and the Shocks: What we’ve learned – and have still to learn – from the financial crisis的评论

首先要说的是书籍本身的装帧和印刷质量都保持了Penguin Press的一贯高品质。本书出版是2014年出版的较为近期的书籍。对有兴趣了解并思考金融危机的规律和研究观点的读者是一本值得一读的著作。

It is very detailed and at times repetitive but presents convincing arguments concerning the world's economic problems. It really appears that many of the world leaders that guide our economic ship are heading in the wrong direction, I would not recommend this to the casual reader because of the difficulty in reading it.

There are a number of very good reviews, so I will try to brief.
I agree with two points made by a number of reviewers:
1- The book is packed with information and is a really extensive analysis of our existing world economy.
2- It is far from an easy read.

I specially liked the authors : we know too little, we have to experiment and learn approach (I call this the
engineering approach) and his justified claim that there is quiet a bit to change in our existing set up.
Given the enormous power of large banks and large international corporations, some needed changes will
be extremely difficult to legislate and to implement.
Hence the need for an easier to read and understand version of the book to get the support of as large as
possible section of the interested public.

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