RaveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)I expected to find it uncomfortably positioned between two stools: stale as journalism but premature as history. Instead, it is fascinating – informative and wise ... provides the raw material from which scholars will gradually piece together what has been going on. It will take years for theory to catch up, but thanks to the likes of Tooze we already know a little ... Tooze’s expertise is in financial history, and so the behaviour of central banks looms large here. It is a revealing lens given the extraordinary course of financial events during the past eighteen months.
