Biographical note: Charles R. Geisst is Ambassador Charles A. Gargano Professor of Finance at Manhattan College and the author of eighteen other books, including Collateral Damaged: The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America and Wall Street: A History.

Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines,...

Biographical note: James P. Hawley, Shyam J. Kamath, and Andrew T. Williams are professors of economics and business at Saint Mary's College of California. Hawley is Director of the Elfenworks Center for the Study of Fiduciary Capitalism. Kamath is Associate Dean and Director of Global,...

Biographical note: Susan M. Wachter is Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate and Finance at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of City and Regional Planning at PennDesign. She codirects the Penn Institute for Urban...

Biographical note: Jeffrey Friedman is a visiting scholar in the Department of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the editor of What Caused the Financial Crisis, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, and editor of the journal Critical Review. Wladimir Kraus...

Main description: Featuring essays by Nobel laureate economists and an afterword by Richard Posner, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the collapse of the global financial sector in 2008. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the nature of modern capitalism and...

When Washington Shut Down Wall Street unfolds like a mystery story. It traces Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo's triumph over a monetary crisis at the outbreak of World War I that threatened the United States with financial disaster. The biggest gold outflow in a generation imperiled...