Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance

Nouriel Roubini was right Paul Krugman, TimeThis is a wake-up call Observer The only professional economist who really predicted the crisis, and perhaps the only independent thinker in that business- Nassim Nicholas Taleb-In this myth-busting book Nouriel Roubini shows that everything we think about economics is wrong. Financial crises are not unpredictable black swans, but an inherent part of capitalism. Only by remaking our financial systems to acknowledge this, can we get out of the mess were in. Will there be another recession, and if so what shape? When will the next bubble occur? What can we do about it? Here Roubini gives the answers, and lists his commandments for the future. His was one of the few voices in the economics profession to have correctly predicted the crisis-. . . broad, well-argued and easy to digest Independent One of the most readable and sensible accounts to date of the financial disasterFinancial Times Succinct, lucid and compelling-. . . essential reading- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times