Economic and financial crises and disasters

Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty examines the beginning of Canada's aerial war against forest insects and how a tiny handful of officials came to lead the world with a made-in-Canada solution to the problem.

Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty examines the beginning of Canada's aerial war against forest insects and how a tiny handful of officials came to lead the world with a made-in-Canada solution to the problem.

For the past two centuries, the great power sitting atop the international global financial system has enjoyed outsized rewards.

For the past two centuries, the great power sitting atop the international global financial system has enjoyed outsized rewards.

War in Ukraine, a global hunger crisis, the West's cost of living crisis - the eruptions of 2022 were all too predictable.

Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBestselling author of The Four and NYU Business School professor delivers an insightful, urgent analysis of who stands to win and who's at risk to lose in a post-pandemic world.

**THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** The most recognisable economist on the planet, Yanis Varoufakis, puts forth his case to reform an EU that currently fails it weakest citizens.

QFINANCE: The Ultimate Resource (5th edition) is the first-step reference for the finance professional or student of finance.

The slow-down in economic growth and the rise in unemployment in the 1970s revived some of the uncertainties experienced by industrialized economies during the inter-war period.

Rapid improvements and constant advancements in information technology have inevitably lead to significant changes for businesses across the globe.

Risk has emerged as a key mechanism for controlling the future and learning from past misfortunes.

Risk has emerged as a key mechanism for controlling the future and learning from past misfortunes.

THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.

The number one bestseller on the hardback list for more than six months, The State We're In is the most explosive analysis of British society to have been published for over thirty years.

In THE LOST CONTINENT BBC Europe Editor Gavin Hewitt tells the story of a flawed dream, a noble vision that turned dangerous, and which led Europe into its gravest crisis since World War Two - a crisis for which it was totally unprepared.

'Robert Peston's compelling account of global financial meltdown is a must-read.

As global markets toppled during the 2008 financial crisis, the Canadian market for non-bank asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) seemed on the verge of collapsing.

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.

Canada's social, economic, political, and environmental impacts on the Western Hemisphere have been largely overlooked by historians and other social scientists.

Canada's social, economic, political, and environmental impacts on the Western Hemisphere have been largely overlooked by historians and other social scientists.

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 2008 global financial crisis affects everyone, but its root causes and potential cures - knowledge necessary in order to make strong financial decisions moving forward - are confusing to many.

Long before the spectacular collapse of Bre-X in 1997, the Canadian capital markets had their share of swindlers and crooks.

Between 1460 and 1540 the development of merchant shipping was of vital importance to the growth of England as a European power.

In this careful and thorough study of a Canadian field which has been relatively untouched in recent years, Dr.

The Canadian tariff has been a singularly faithful mirror of economic and political change in this country, but it is a glass through which much has been seen darkly.

By choosing to concentrate upon discovering what forest resources were available to the French navy during the ancien régime and what use it was able to make of them, Mr.

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.

Debt is the hidden engine driving undocumented migration to the United States.

Explores the Origin of the Recent Banking Crisis and how to Preclude Future CrisesShedding new light on the recent worldwide banking debacle, The Banking Crisis Handbook presents possible remedies as to what should have been done prior, during, and after the crisis.

A timely narrative account of the biggest financial crisis in modern history and its human consequences by the author of Dresden and The Berlin Wall.

It is a truism that when America sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

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.

In September 2008 the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy ignited panic throughout the financial system, sparking a chain reaction that led to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression.

In September 2008 the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy ignited panic throughout the financial system, sparking a chain reaction that led to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression.

In 1997 it seemed that things in the City could only get better.

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.

Governing Global Derivatives analyzes the role of the most important financial innovation of the last two decades - financial derivatives - in a global dimension.

Governing Global Derivatives analyzes the role of the most important financial innovation of the last two decades - financial derivatives - in a global dimension.

Written by a team of experts on the contemporary global capitalist political economy who are able to shed light on the inner workings of global capitalism and the capitalist globalization process that has led to the growth and development of capitalism from the national to the global level, this groundbreaking volume provides critical analyses of the causes and consequences of the Great Recession of 2008-2009.

Written by a team of experts on the contemporary global capitalist political economy who are able to shed light on the inner workings of global capitalism and the capitalist globalization process that has led to the growth and development of capitalism from the national to the global level, this groundbreaking volume provides critical analyses of the causes and consequences of the Great Recession of 2008-2009.

An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth'A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world' Ai WeiweiIn the twenty-first century, a wave of political, cultural and technological change has capsized our old certainties and assumptions, creating both opportunity and danger.

This title was first published in 2001.

This title was first published in 2001.

This title was first published in 2001.