# Aftershock

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- Book: [Aftershock](https://www.bookquiver.com/philippe-legrain/aftershock) ([Aftershock.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/philippe-legrain/aftershock.md))
- Authors: [Philippe Legrain](https://www.bookquiver.com/philippe-legrain)
- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4912-275-5
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2011-05-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The financial crisis brought the world to the brink. But now bankers' bonuses are back, house prices are rising again and politicians promise recovery. Is this really sustainable - or do we need to change course? In this incisive assessment of the post-crisis world, Philippe Legrain looks at what went wrong, and how the world's leaders and financial institutions can learn from their disastrous mistakes. Reporting first-hand from across the globe he sets out the huge dangers ahead - and the opportunities to craft a fairer, safer, richer and greener world. Wide-ranging, brilliant and impassioned, AFTERSHOCK it is at once a warning from history and a compelling call to arms for the future.