Crisis: One Central Bank Governor & the Global Financial Collapse

By Alan Bollard and Sarah Gaitanos

An authoritative insider's perspective, this book penned by the governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand chronicles the global financial and economic meltdown. A well-researched and dynamic firsthand account, it captures the drama of the events—from the overheated markets of 2007 through the collapse of investment banks and crises in multiple economies to the fragile recovery in New Zealand and the world in 2010—as politicians, bankers, and government officials struggled to deal with the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. This updated edition also reveals how New Zealand grappled with the impact of debt crises in the United States and Europe as well as with the devastating effects of the Christchurch earthquakes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Independent Publishers Group
• Release date: Nov 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781775585374

Alan Bollard

Alan Bollard wrote this novel while he was living in Singapore, where his job has been running an international organisation by day, and novel-writing on planes, at airports and at night. He has written many works of non-fiction, produced an economics software game called Oikonomos, and helped to rebuild the MONIAC, the world’s first economic computer running. In his earlier life he has been New Zealand Reserve Bank Governor and Secretary of the New Zealand Treasury.

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