After the Music Stopped

The Financial Crisis, The Response and The Work Ahead

The New York Times bestseller

“Blinder’s book deserves its likely place near the top of reading lists about the crisis. It is the best comprehensive history of the episode… A riveting tale.” – Financial Times

One of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers offers a masterful narrative of the crisis and its lessons.

Many fine books on the financial crisis were first drafts of history—books written to fill the need for immediate understanding. Alan S. Blinder, esteemed Princeton professor, Wall Street Journal columnist, and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, held off, taking the time to understand the crisis and to think his way through to a truly comprehensive and coherent narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened, what the government did to fight it, and what we can do from here—mired as we still are in its wreckage.

https://www.princeton.edu/blinder/books.htm