A post to concatenate interesting material on the GFC and the GEC:

• Robert Marks [2010]:  A timeline of the Global Financial Crisis. (Initial version published in the Australian Journal of Management, and since updated.)
• Larissa MacFarquhar [2010]:  The deflationist:  How Paul Krugman found politics.  The New Yorker, 2010-03-01, pp. 38-49.
• John Lanchester [2009]:  Outsmarted:  high finance vs. human nature.  The New Yorker, 2009-06-01, pp. 83-87.
• Anon [2009]: The other-wordly philosophers.  The Economist, 2009-07-18/24, pp. 70-72.
• Anon [2009]: Efficiency and beyond.  The Economist, 2009-07-18/24, pp. 73-74.
• John Cassidy [2010]:  After the Blow-Up:  Laissez-faire economists do some soul-searching – and finger-pointing.  The New Yorker, 2010-01-11, pp. 28-33.
• John Cassidy [2009]:  Rational irrationality:  the real reason that capitalism is so crash-prone.  The New Yorker, 2009-10-05, pp. 30-35.
• Paul Krugman [2009]: How did economists get it so wrong? The New York Times, 2009-09-06.
• J. Doyne Farmer and Duncan Foley [2009]: The economy needs agent-based modeling. Nature, 460, 685-686 (2009-08-06).
• Mark Buchanan [2009]: Economics: meltdown modeling. Nature, 460, 680-682 (2009-08-06).
• Jonathan Jarvis [2009]:  Crisis of Credit (Animation).