David A Stockman, The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, Public Affairs, 2013, 742 pages.

This angry book is a polemic about the vital importance of sound money and the lack of it as a cause of the 2008 panic. Author David Stockman argues that flooding the economy and financial markets with bail-outs and cheap money when the US government was heavily in deficit precipitated the crisis. The problem of unsound money lies deep in economic history, long before the most