Richard Iley and Mervyn Lewis have written an extremely useful book on the global economy since the Western financial crisis. Well-written, well-informed and easily accessible to non-economists, it offers much good sense about many questions, from the future of the renminbi to that of the United...

Crisis takes readers from the overheated markets of 2007, through the collapse of investment banks and stressful times for numerous economies in 2008 and 2009, and on to a fragile recovery in New Zealand and the world since 2010. This updated edition also reveals how New Zealand grappled with...