第一本书是《变化和冲击 》 （ The Shifts and the Shocks ） ， 作者是保守派英国记者马丁·沃尔夫（Martin Wolf ） 。 在书的开头，他对酝酿了至今仍在影响世界的这场经济灾难的重要变化做了归纳编目。
The first book is The Shifts and the Shocks, by the conservative British journalist Martin Wolf, who begins by cataloguing the major shifts that set the stage for the economic disaster that continues to shape the world today.