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Adam Tooze’s Crashed–How a Decade of Financial Crisis Changed the World is an extremely ambitious project. Organised in four parts, it captures the build-up to the 2007/8 Global Financial Crisis (GFC), its unfolding and containment in the United States (US), its sequel in the guise of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis and, finally, the political aftershocks we face today, particularly rising nationalism and the increasingly visible cracks in democratic systems around the world. Unlike other books on the GFC it sheds light on the grand narrative behind this financial turmoil, connecting the dots not just between major economic but also political events of the past two decades.