New York TimesBestseller

One of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers offers a masterful narrative of the crisis and its lessons.

Many fine books on the financial crisis were first drafts of history books written to fill the need for immediate understanding. Alan S. Blinder, esteemed Princeton professor, Wall Street Journalcolumnist, and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, held off, taking the time to understand the crisis and to think his way through to a truly comprehensive and coherent narrative of how the...