The Rise of Carry as a Lens on Central Banks and Market Structure

Summary

This exchange recommends The Rise of Carry to readers seeking an account of how markets and economies changed over roughly two decades, including central-bank policy, quantitative easing, low yields, and stimulus. The recommendation frames the book as a perspective on the interaction between market structure, central banks, and the incentives of market participants, rather than as a conventional economics survey.

The document offers no detailed explanation of the book’s arguments, supporting evidence, or analytical method; it is a brief reading recommendation, and the positive assessment belongs to the respondent. It also distinguishes the requested focus from technological changes such as electronic trading and digital assets. Readers should treat the exchange as a pointer to a particular interpretive account, not as a summary or balanced evaluation of recent economic history.

Key ideas

• The recommended book examines markets and economies through central-bank policy, market structure, and participant incentives.
• It is presented as a perspective on changes associated with low yields and monetary stimulus.
• The recommendation is for a market-focused account rather than a conventional economics overview.
• The exchange gives no detailed evidence or summary with which to assess the book’s claims.

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# Looking for a Book which can summaries last 20 years of economics


# Looking for a Book which can summaries last 20 years of economics












What I would like to read is how the economic spectrum have changed over the period ( Central banks policy decisions , QE 1/2/3 , ECB TLTRO, BOJ unlimited stimulus ). How the central bank dealt with the low yield environment with record breaking expansionary economy. I am not looking for technological advancement in the economy ( as your mentioned Elec trading,dark pools or for that matter bitcoin). But something rather how the economic landscape has changed in last 20 years

## Answer by Rafael Velásquez (score 1)

https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/55168

Read the Rise of Carry. It'll give a very original and in my opinion correct perspective of what's happened in market and economies in the past 20 years.

It will be nothing like an economics book and more a book grounder on the realities of market structure, central banks, and participant incentives.

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Carry-Consequences-Volatility-Suppression/dp/1260458407

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