Economic and financial crises and disasters

The managerial revolution, or the rise of management as a distinct and vital group in industrial society, might be identified as a major development of the modernization processes, similar to the scientific and industrial revolutions.

The current global financial turmoil, triggered by the US subprime crisis, has spread quickly and resulted in the worst global economic crisis since the 1930s.

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.

The financial crisis exposed the potentially unsavory results of the interaction between low- and moderate income households and alternative and mainstream financial institutions.

Joyce traces the IMF''s actions to promote international financial stability from the Bretton Woods era through the recent recession.

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

The audit committee has gained considerable attention in the aftermath of 2007-2009 global financial crisis.

Why did the world''s nations fight the Covid-19 pandemic in such different ways and with such varying results?

In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land.

Why did some firms weather the financial crisis and others not?

In July 2007, the then chief executive of Citigroup, Charles Prince, captured the hubris of a market dangerously addicted to debt: "e;When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated.

Debunking Economics exposes what many non-economists may have suspected and a minority of economists have long known: that economic theory is not only unpalatable, but also plain wrong.

Three times in the few years since the global financial crisis erupted, the euro has come close to extinction, endangering both the world economy and history's most ambitious project in shared sovereignty.

It was one of the gravest challenges faced by any British government in peacetime.

The 2007-08 financial crisis surprised many economists and the public.

This book shows how the Keynesian approach to business cycles can be used to explain and understand the current financial crisis.

Much has been written on the financial crisis of 2008 the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression analysing its causes and the risks for the future of the global economy.

This book is a collection of invited and selected papers from the Singapore Economic Policy Forum 2009 around a central theme, Challenges Facing Singapore in the Post-Crisis Era and Policy Responses.

Conventional wisdom says that Europe's crisis is a financial crisis.

In his brilliant interdisciplinary analysis of the global financial crisis, Joseph Vogl aims to demystify finance capitalism-with its bewildering array of new instruments-by tracing the historical stages through which the financial market achieved its current autonomy.

In London, the world's foremost financial centre, the week before the outbreak of the First World War saw the breakdown of the markets, culminating with the closure for the first time ever of the London Stock Exchange on Friday 31 July.

How top traders made huge profits during the most momentous market events of the past century Financial and commodity markets are characterized by periodic crashes and upside explosions.

While Greece's debt crisis continues to dominate international headlines, the country has received remarkably little scholarly attention – especially in comparison to other European Union members.

The European Union (EU) has sought to establish itself as a global environmental leader but was hit by the combined effects of the economic and financial crisis from 2007-8 leading some to question whether the EU could continue to adopt ambitious environmental policy.

This book surveys 'thrift' through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, focussing in on key moments such as the early Puritans and Post-war rationing, and key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and Henry Thoreau.

Much has been written on the financial crisis of 2008 the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression analysing its causes and the risks for the future of the global economy.

How Main Street was hit by-and might recover from-the financial crisis, by The New York Times's national economics correspondentWhen the financial crisis struck in 2008, Main Street felt the blow just as hard as Wall Street.

THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.

The fall and rise of a trillion-dollar industryJust three years ago, hedge funds were at the top of the investment world.

Prominent economists present detailed analyses of the conditions that made Greece vulnerable to economic crisis and offer policy recommendations for comprehensive and radical change.

'The emerging rock-star of Europe's anti-austerity uprising.

This book provides a framework for making administration effective and improving mitigation and rehabilitation measures with a view to ensuring a safer life for citizens.

Managing Risk and Decision Making in Times of Economic Distress: Part B 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.

This edited volume will highlight recent research in derivatives modelling and markets in a post-crisis world across a number of dimensions or themes.

Conventional wisdom says that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) functions as the de facto international lender of last resort (ILLR) for the global financial system.

Clearing houses, or CCPs, were among the very few organisations to emerge from the global financial crisis with their standing enhanced.

Education has significant and far-reaching effects not only on individuals, but also on the societies in which they live and to which they contribute.

The international development sector has found itself confronting new challenges to poverty eradication and the promotion of human rights.

From an economist who warned of the global financial crisis, a new warning about the continuing peril to the world economyRaghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit.

Clearing houses, or CCPs, were among the very few organisations to emerge from the global financial crisis with their standing enhanced.

This book surveys 'thrift' through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, focussing in on key moments such as the early Puritans and Post-war rationing, and key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and Henry Thoreau.

Why has the Eurozone ended up with an unemployment rate more than twice that of the United States more than six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers?

Half a century ago, on 16 December 1966, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

Samuel Gompers, the charismatic chief of the American Federation of Labor at the turn of the century, claimed to represent the interests of all workers in North America, but it was not until American corporations began to export jobs to Canada via branch plants that he became concerned with representing Canadian workers.

Redistribution, or subsidies and regulations intended to help the poor, unemployed, and financially distressed, have changed in many ways since the onset of the recent financial crisis.