Economic and financial crises and disasters

Disaster risk management is of increasing significance in today's world.

Current debates about economic crises typically focus on the role that public debt and debt-fueled public spending play in economic growth.

In The Shifts and the Shocks, Martin Wolf - one of the world's most influential economic commentators and author of Why Globalization Works - presents his controversial and highly original analysis of the economic course of the last seven yearsThere have been many books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the financial and economic crisis which began in 2007-8.

Ireland''s experience of Europe''s most spectacular financial bubble, bust and recovery is narrated and dissected by a central banking insider.

This book aims to identify and analyze the impact of the 2007-09 global financial crisis on Asian economies and to assess the short-term and longer-term policy responses to the crisis in terms of their effectiveness and sustainability.

Understanding the results of alternative fiscal arrangements in multi-tiered government structures is crucial for designing effective decentralization policies.

Meltdown reveals how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was able to curb unsafe and unfair practices that led to the 2008 financial crisis.

Volume 14 of "e;Advances in Financial Economics"e; presents recent research on corporate governance from a number of countries across the world, including the United States, Spain, Malaysia, Israel and others.

By learning from inspiring individuals in the industry, finance professionals can pursue viable careers while benefiting society and upholding humanistic values.

It doesn't matter who you are or what business you're in, you are never far from a crisis.

Risk and Hyperconnectivity brings together for the first time three paradigms: new risk theory, neoliberalization theory, and connectivity theory, to illuminate how the kaleidoscope of risk events in the opening years of the new century has recharged a neoliberal battlespace of media, economy, and security.

The 2008 recession left the United States in deep trouble.

In 2008, the world was plunged into a financial and economic crash.

This book examines the role of law in financial development and economic growth within institutions.

Stock market booms are cause for celebration.

Provides fresh analysis of the European financial system for undergraduate and graduate students of finance, economics and business.

Recent world events have created a compelling need for new perspectives and realistic solutions to the problem of sovereign debt.

An analysis of the repeated existential crises affecting the resilience of the European Union in the twenty-first century.

On the evening of March 16, 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-five-year-old institution in the financial world, sold itself for an outrageously low price to the $2 trillion global behemoth JP Morgan Chase.

A brilliantly original assessment of what caused the global crash-and a practical plan for investing accordinglySupercycles, according to international economist and strategist, Arun Motianey, are the continuous, long waves of boom and bust that undulate through the global economic and financial systems.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter details "e;how the U.

The financial crisis, which originated in developed country financial markets, quickly spread to developing countries.

How New Deal economic policies played out in the small town of Arthurdale, West Virginia Today, the U.

Alongside other types of mass atrocities, genocide has received extensive scholarly, policy, and practitioner attention.

Setting macroeconomic policy is especially difficult in fragile states.

Managing Risk and Decision Making in Times of Economic Distress adds much needed scholarly analysis of the fledgling decision/control approach, arguing the merits of its empirical content to shed light on the structure of capital contracts and rationale for diversity of objectives.

The financial crisis of 2007 and the following recession present a major challenge to macroeconomic theory.

QFINANCE: The Ultimate Resource (4th edition) offers both practical and thought-provoking articles for the finance practitioner, written by leading experts from the markets and academia.

This book explores the complex developments that have shaped Ireland's economic development, north and south, and led to recurring crises and instability.

Offers a novel explanation of the financial crisis and Great Recession that emphasizes the destruction of shared prosperity over the past thirty years.

Robust financial markets support capitalism, they don't imperil it.

Connections among different assets, asset classes, portfolios, and the stocks of individual institutions are critical in examining financial markets.

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Those who hoped the collapse of financial markets would usher in the end of neoliberalism and rehabilitate support for traditional social democratic policies programmes have been disappointed.

This book discusses the role of central banks and draws lessons from examining their evolution over the past two centuries.

Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and international bestselling author of Principles -whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide -shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well.

An examination of macroeconomic policy, focusing on the relationship between free-market policies and government intervention.

In the spirit of Barbarians at the Gate and Liar’s Poker comes The Sellout, the definitive book on the recent collapse of Wall Street, one of the most dramatic and anxiety-ridden era in national socioeconomic history.

The global financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 ruined businesses and banks, individuals and even nations, and seemed to land a mortal blow to the capitalist system.

Why has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it?

The health emergency that broke out in 2020 is a landmark event in the development of capitalism, confirming the underlying change signalled by the Great Crisis of 2007-9.

This book provides the first comprehensive account of post-crisis international regulation of derivatives by bringing together the international relations literature on regime complexity and the international political economy literature on financial regulation.

This major re-assessment by a leading political economist shows that the 2008 financial crash was no ordinary crisis, but the harbinger of a much deeper convulsion comparable to the major past crises of capitalism.

Welfare and the Great Recession surveys and analyses welfare consequences in the period following the financial crisis in Europe.

In recent years, the world has been rocked by major economic crises, most notably the devastating collapse of Lehman Brothers, the largest bankruptcy in American history, which triggered the breathtakingly destructive sub-prime disaster.