本书作者欧文·费雪，是美国经济学家、数学家，经济计量学的先驱者之一，耶鲁大学教授。本书是费雪1932年在美国科学促进会做演讲后，对演讲的内容进行深入研究的成果。在费雪看来，1929年爆发的经济危机以及其他几次经济危机所产生的大萧条都是本书所讨论的九个因素产生作用的体现。本书除了分析这些因素，还根据美国的负债情况提出了造成萧条的根本原因。同时，作者还提出了解决问题的治本措施。

"Ray Dalio's excellent study provides an innovative way of thinking about debt crises and the policy response." - Ben Bernanke "Ray Dalio's book is must reading for anyone who aspires to prevent or manage through the next financial crisis." - Larry Summers "A terrific piece of work from one of the world's top investors who has devoted his life to understanding markets and demonstrated that understanding by navigating the 2008 financial crisis well." - Hank Paulson "An outstanding history of financial crises, including the devastating crisis of 2008, with a very valuable framework for understanding why the engine of the financial system occasionally breaks down, and what types of policy actions by central banks and governments are necessary to resolve systemic financial crises. This should serve as a play book for future policy makers, with practical guidance about what to do and what not to do." - Tim Geithner On the 10th anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, one of the world's most successful investors, Ray Dalio, shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well. This template allowed his firm, Bridgewater Associates, to anticipate events and navigate them well while others struggled badly. As he explained in his #1 New York Times Bestseller, Principles: Life & Work, Dalio believes that most everything happens over and over again through time so that by studying their patterns one can understand the cause-effect relationships behind them and develop principles for dealing with them well. In this 3-part research series, he does that for big debt crises and shares his template in the hopes reducing the chances of big debt crises happening and helping them be better managed in the future. The template comes in three parts provided in three books: 1) The Archetypal Big Debt Cycle (which explains the template), 2) 3 Detailed Cases (which examines in depth the 2008 financial crisis, the 1930's Great Depression, and the 1920's inflationary depression of Germany's Weimar Republic), and 3) Compendium of 48 Cases (which is a compendium of charts and brief descriptions of the worst debt crises of the last 100 years). Whether you're an investor, a policy maker, or are simply interested, the unconventional perspective of one of the few people who navigated the crises successfully, A Template for Understanding Big Debt Crises will help you understand the economy and markets in revealing new ways.

《逃不开的经济周期(珍藏版)》内容简介：我们一生都会历经数次经济的增长、衰退、停滞和危机，对于未来生活的看法总是从乐观的高峰跌落悲观的深渊，又在某种契机下重燃希望。如此循环往复的经济波动，就是经济周期，对于经济周期，我们该如何理解和把握呢？ 为解开经济周期的奥秘，作者拉斯•特维德带领我们翻开经济周期的历史，从苏格兰赌徒兼金融天才约翰•劳所生活的时代开始，一直到今天的计算机时代，回溯300年来财智精英对经济周期理论和现象的解密之旅，包括经济学之父亚当•斯密、股票经纪人李嘉图、投资银行家桑顿、志得意满的熊彼特、美国“最恶交易员”古尔德等人，探索各派经济理论与模型，帮我们揭开经济循环的真相。 这趟历史之旅的目的并不仅仅是回顾过往，而在于帮助读者将对经济循环的理解正确运用于预测经济波动、因应形势、明智投资、规避风险。