Surviving the Crisis: Economic Reading
Galley Proof
Nov. 3, 2008

Despite an overall decrease in consumer spending, financial and economic books have been flying off the shelves at Borders and Barnes & Noble. The Wall Street Journal listed some of its readers’ recommendations for literature to guide people through the crisis:

·    The Coming Economic Earthquake, Larry Burkett

·    The Wealthy Barber, David Chilton

·    The Great Crash 1929, John Kenneth Galbraith

·    Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, Charles P. Kindleberger

·    Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay

·    The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash, Charles R. Morris

  ·    The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith