What Goes Into An Economic Crisis?

This is an alphabetical version.  For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: 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

• Capitalism: A Conversation In Critical Theory by Nancy Fraser, and Rahel Jarggi
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

World Financial Crisis

• (Circa 20st Century - 2018 C.E.) Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze

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

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

• The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben
• The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann

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

• October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
• Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum

2007-2009 Crisis

• Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
• Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
• The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman

Great Depression

• A History Of The Federal Reserve: Volume 1, 1913-1951 by Allan H. Meltzer

United Kingdom - 11th Century 

• The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie

Africa - 20th Century

• The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai

North Korea

• Korea: A History by Eugene Y. Park

South Korea

• Korea: A History by Eugene Y. Park

Various Crises

• This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart, and Kenneth S. Rogoff
• (Circa 20th Century) The Evolutionary Transition To Capitalism edited by Kazimierz Z. Poznański
• Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• (Circa Late 20th-Early 21st Century) Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity by Michael Lewis
• The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith

Crisis Management

Financial

• 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
• Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us by James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio Jr., Ross Levine

Singapore 

• From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew