This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: What Goes Into An Economic Crisis?
This list contains the background understanding for why crises occur, general crisis and specific crisis, and what to do about them.
The Varieties of Crises
Crisis of Capitalism
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- Capitalism: A Conversation In Critical Theory by Nancy Fraser, and Rahel Jarggi
Basis For Economic Crisis
- Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller
World Financial Crisis
- (Circa 20st Century - 2018 C.E.) Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
Basis For Financial Crisis
- The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It by Anat Admati, Martin Hellwig
- Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don’t See Them Coming by Gary Gorton
Environmental Crisis
U.S.A. Economic Crisis
- The Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Black Friday, 1869 by Kenneth D. Ackerman
- A History Of The Federal Reserve: Volume 2, Book 1, 1951-1969 by Allan H. Meltzer
- A History Of The Federal Reserve: Volume 2, Book 2 1970-1986 by Allan H. Meltzer
Russian Economic Crisis
- Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
- October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
2007-2009 Crisis
- Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
- The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman
United Kingdom - 11th Century
Africa - 20th Century
- The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
Various Crises
- This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart, and Kenneth S. Rogoff
- (Circa Late 20th-Early 21st Century) Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity by Michael Lewis
- The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
- Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- (Circa 20th Century) The Evolutionary Transition To Capitalism edited by Kazimierz Z. Poznański
Crisis Management
Financial
- Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us by James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio Jr., Ross Levine
- The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
- Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance by Greta R. Krippner
Singapore
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew