This is the Portuguese edition of a book about, according to the first words written on it , “the financial collapse of 2007 and the “Great Depression” that followed”. In other words, this is a book about the newly enshrined word, the “crisis” which shook the financial world in the U.S. and Europe, and which, due to the configuration of the world economy, impacted on virtually all sectors of society worldwide, something we are still experiencing.