5 Great Books on the Recent Financial Crisis, selected by Jonas Prager

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers, by Lawrence McDonald.  Crown, 2009.

The Financial Crisis: Who is to Blame?, by Howard Davies.  Polity, 2010.

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States, by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.  Authorized ed.  PublicAffairs, 2011.

Fool’s Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe, by Gillian Tett.  Free Press, 2009.

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis—and Themselves, by Andrew Ross Sorkin.  Viking, 2009.

Jonas Prager