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and Hello and welcome to Politics Theory Other.

My name is Alex Doherty and today I'm joined for the second time by Adam Too's.

Adam is Professor of History and Director of the European Institute at Columbia University.

I spoke to Adam in episode 14 about his earlier book, The Wages of Destruction,

The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy.

Today we'll be talking about his new book,

Crashed How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World,

which is just out from Alan Lane. Initially the intention was to just do one episode on the book, but

it's such an incredibly detailed and wide-ranging work that it just didn't really seem

right to devote just the one episode to it. So in a couple of weeks, there'll be an additional

episode covering some of the topics we didn't get to talk about this time, including Brexit and the role of the city of London.

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Before we started the interview proper, I briefly chatted with Adam about my

own experience of reading the book. And I mentioned that despite it being a work of economic history,

like its previous books, the wages of destruction and the deluge, I found it a much more challenging

read, largely due to the difficulty I found of getting to grips with modern finance.

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