Recommended Books, Movies, and Television Specials

 

Books on the Overview of the Financial Crises

• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Carreyrou; New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2018)
• The Fed and Lehman Brothers: Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster (Ball, Lawrence; Cambridge University Press, June 2018)
• A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History (Henriques; Henry Holt and Company, 2017)
• Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal (Soltes, Eugene; PublicAffairs, July 2016)
• Connectedness and Contagion: Protecting the Financial System from Panics (Scott, Hal S.; MIT Press, May 2016)
• The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers (Lev, Baruch and Gu, Fen; Wiley Finance, June 2016)
• The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath (Bernanke, Ben; Norton & Co, October 2015)
• The Shifts and the Shocks: What We’ve Learned– and Have Still to Learn– from the Financial Crisis (Martin Wolf; Penguin Press, July 2014)
• The System Worked: How the World Stopped Another Great Depression (Daniel Drezner; Oxford University Press, June 2014)
• Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises (Timothy Geithner; Random House, May 2014)
• Broke: America’s Banking System (RMA, 2013)
• After the Music Stopped:The Financial Crisis, the Response and the Work Ahead (Alan Blinder; Penguin Press, June 2013)
• The AIG Story (Maurice Greenberg and Lawrence Cunningham; John Wiley, 2013)
• The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It (Anat Admati; Princeton University Press, February 2013)
• Why I Left Goldman Sachs (Greg Smith; Grand Central Publishing, October 22, 2012)
• Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence (William Silber; Bloomsbury, September 2012)
• The Fateful History of Fannie Mae (James Hagerty; History Press, September 2012)
• Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World (Christopher Steiner; Portfolio, 2012)
• The Great American Stick-up: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street (Robert Scheer; Nation Books, 2010)
• A Financial History of Modern US Corporate Scandals (Jerry Markham; M.E. Sharpt, July 2005)

Books Relating to the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009:

• Rethinking Housing Bubbles: The Role of Household and Bank Balance Sheets in Modeling Economic Cycles (Steven D. Gjerstad, Vernon L. Smith; Cambridge University Press, May 2014)
• House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again (Afif Mian, Amir Sufi; University of Chicago Press, May 2014)
• The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks, and Entire Nations on the Edge (Faisal Islam; Heads of Zeus, October 2013)
• The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature and the Future of Forecasting (Alan Greenspan; Penguin Press, October 2013)
• What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider Story of Organizational Drift and Unintended Consequences (Steven Mandis; Harvard Business Review Press, October 2013)
• Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy (Iain Martin; Simon & Schuster, September 2013)
• The Billionaire’s Apprentice: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund (Anita Raghavan; Business Plus, June 2013)
• The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader’s Tale of Spectacular Excess (Turney Duff) (Crown Books, June 2013)
• The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire (Neil Irwin) (Penguin Press, April 2013)
• Other People’s Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made (Charles Bagli) (Dutton, April 2013)
• Rogue Financier: Adventures of an Estranged Capitalist (Florian Homm) (English Version of German Book: Kopf Geld Jagd )
• Bull by the Horns: Fighting to save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself  (Sheila Bair; Free Press, September 2012)
• The Ponzi Scheme Puzzle: A History and Analysis of Con Artists and Victims (Tamar Frankel; Oxford University Press, August 2012)
• Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street by Rescuing Wall Street (Neil Barofsky; Free Press, July 2012)
• Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President (Ron Suskind; Harper Perenial, June 2012)
• Dark Pools: High-Speed Traders, A.I. Bandits, and the Threat to the Global Financial System (Scott Patterson; Crown Business, June 2012)
• The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual- The Biggest Bank Failure in American History (Kirsten Grind; Simon and Schuster, June 2012)
• Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff (James Stuart; Penguin Books, March 2012)
• Chasing Goldman Sachs: How the Masters of the Universe Melted Wall Street Down . . . And Why They’ll Take Us to the Brink Again (Suzanne McGee; Crown Business, October 2011)
• All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis (Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera; Portfolio, August 2011)
• Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Created the Worst Financial Crisis of Our Time (Gretchen Morgenson; Times Books, May 2011)
• The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust (Diana B. Hendriques; Times Books, April 2011)
• The End of Wall Street (Roger Lowenstein; Penguin, March 2011)
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Michael Lewis; W.W. Norton & Company, February 2011)
• On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System (Henry Paulson; Business Plus, February 2011)
• The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It (Scott Patterson; Crown Business, January 2011)
• How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (John Cassidy; Picador, November 2010)
• A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers (Lawrence G. McDonald, Patrick Robinson; Crown Business, October 2010)
• In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic (David Wessel; Crown Business, August 2010)
• Anatomy of a Meltdown: A Dual Financial Biography of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis (Michael P. Malloy, Aspen Publishers, July 2010)
• 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 (Gillian Tett; Free Press, April 2010)
• The Foreclosure of America (Adam Michaelson; Berkley Trade, April 2010)
• The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind the Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History (Gregory Zuckerman; Crown Business, December 2010)
• Chain of Blame (Paul Muolo, Matthew Padilla; Wiley, February 2010)
• House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street (William Cohan; Anchor, February 2010)
• Too Big to Fail: Inside the Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System– and Themselves (Andrew Ross Sorkin; Viking Adult; October 2009)
• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (Roger Lowenstein; Random House Trade Paperbacks, October 2001)

Books relating to Enron, Worldcom, Dot.Com Collapse (2000-2002):

• Taking Down the Lion: The Triumphant Rise and Tragic Fall of Tyco’s Dennis Kozlowski (Catherine Neal; Palgrave McMillan, January 2014)
• Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees (Patrick Dillon, Carl Cannon; Broadway, April 2011)
• Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story (Kurt Eichenwald; Broadway, December 2005)
• 24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies that Destroyed Faith in Corporate America (Rebecca Smith, John Emshwiller; Harper Business, October 2004)
• The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (Bethany McLean; Portfolio Trades, September 2004)
• Disconnected: Deceit and Betrayal at WorldCom (Lynne Jeter; Wiley, July 2004)

Books Relating to Accounting Fraud

• Exposure: Inside the Olympus Scandal : How I Went from CEO to Whistleblower (Michael Woodford; Portfolio, November 2012)
• Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports (Howard Schilit; McGraw Hill, April 2010)
• Essentials of Corporate Fraud (Tracey Coenen; Wiley, March 2008)
• Business Fairytales: Grim Realities of Fictitious Financial Reporting (Cecil Jackson; South-Western, July 2006)
• The Financial Numbers Game: Detecting Creative Accounting Practices (Charles Mulford and Eugene Corniskey; Wiley & Son, September 2005)
• Final Accounting: Ambition, Greed, and The Fall Arthur Anderson (Barbara Toffler;  Broadway, March 2003)

Books Relating to the Collapse of the Savings and Loans (1980’s):

• Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco (Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Harper Business, December 1, 2009)
• The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One (William Black; University of Texas Press, April 2005)
• Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis (Kitty Calavita, Henry Pontell, Robert Tillman; University of California Press, May 1999)
• Legal Extortion: The War Against Lincoln Savings and Charlie Keating (Jack Atchison; Northwest Publishers; February 1995)
• Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Millions (Michael Binstein, Charles Bowden; Random House, June 1993)
• Den of Thieves (James Stewart; Touchstone, September 1992)
• The Great Savings and Loan Debacle (James Barth; Aei Pr, April 1991)
• The Greatest Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry (Martin Mayer; Scribner, October 1990)
• The S&L Insurance Crisis: How Did It Happen? (Edward Kane; University Press of America, June 1989)

Books Relating to Corporate Fraud and Other Financial Collapses

• Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (Charles W. Calomiris & Stephen H. Haber; Princeton University Press, February 2014)
• Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to an Online Poker Empire– and How It All Cam Crashing Down (Ben Mezrich) (William Morrow, May 2013)
• Octopus:The Secret Market and the World’s Wildest Con (Guy Lawson; Crown Publishers, November 2012)
• Mr. Ruehle, You are a Free Man – A Broadcom Saga: My Fight for Justice (William J. Ruehle; CreateSpace Independent Publishing, August 2012)
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Liaquat Ahamed; Penguin Books, December 2009)
• The Informant: A True Story (Kurt Eichenwald; Broadway Books, July 2001)
• Insider Trading (William K. S. Wang & Marc I. Steinberg; Little Brown & Co., June 1997)
• Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (Michael Lewis; Penguin Books, October 1990)

Recent Movies and Television Specials on the Financial Crisis:

• “The Dropout” (2022)
• “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley” (2019)
• “The Big Short” (2015)
• “The Wolf of Wall Street” (2013)
• “Arbitrage” (2012)
• “Too Big To Fail: The True Story Behind the 2008 Economic Crisis” (HBO, May 2012)
• “Margin Call” (Roadside Attractions, December 2011)
• “Inside Job” (Sony Picture Classics, March 2011)
• “Frontline: The Warning” (PBS, January 2010)
• “Frontline: Inside the Meltdown” (PBS, May 2009)
• “Crisis on Wall Street: September 15, 2008” (Charlie Rose, Inc., September 2008)
• “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” (Magnolia Studios, January 2006)