Economic and financial crises and disasters

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

The world's best financial minds help us understand today's financial crisis With so much information saturating the market for the everyday investor, trying to understand why the economic crisis happened and what needs to be done to fix it can be daunting.

Explores how central bankers and finance ministers can compensate for political turmoil and manage market behaviour.

The Answer to Global Overload Contending with the 24/7 news cycle and an endless barrage of choices and information has stymied leadership and decision-making strategies among those at the top.

The inside story of what really happened at Lehman Brothers and why it failed In The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, investigative writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward takes readers inside Lehman's highly charged offices.

Global governance of international banks is breaking down after the Great Financial Crisis, as national regulators are withdrawing on their home turf.

This book investigates cases in which national and international activities have gone massively wrong, entailing seriously negative consequences.

How the unaccountable, unmonitorable, and unchecked actions of regulators precipitated the global financial crisis; and how to reform the system.

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

The era-defining international bestseller - the definitive account of the global financial crash'Has all the drama of a Hollywood movie' Daily Telegraph'The definitive account' Sunday Times, Books of the YearThey were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions.

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The European Union regime for fighting market manipulation and insider trading commonly referred to as market abuse was significantly reshuffled in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2008 and new legal instruments to fight market abuse were eventually adopted in 2014.

An industry insider reveals the inner workings of our financial system and the agencies who attempt to control it During his dozen years as an SEC attorney, author Richard Sauer opened and supervised some of its most notable financial cases-investigations that took him to a dozen countries and returned hundreds of millions of dollars to American investors.

The European debt crisis has posed a challenge for many people to understand, both non-Europeans and Europeans alike.

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.

This book is motivated by the simple hope that the cloud of the global financial crisis may yet have a silver lining-that political leaders, economists, and management scholars might seize this opportunity to reflect critically on the assumptions, practices, and infrastructures that have precipitated the crisis and to imagine and create new forms of organization that sustainably enhance the well-being of global stakeholders.

Actions taken by the United States and other countries during the Great Recession focused on restoring the viability of major financial institutions while guaranteeing debt and stimulating growth.

Entdecken Sie in "Krieg und Vermögen", wie die Lektionen der Vergangenheit Sie durch unsichere Zeiten leiten und zu finanziellem Erfolg führen können.

During the 2008 financial crisis, wealth strategist Garrett Gunderson made his timely debut into the literary world with his ground breaking book, Killing Sacred Cows, where he exposed the ingrained fallacies and destructive myths surrounding money and wealth.

Contributes to a better understanding of the policy, economic, and legal options of countries struggling with debt problems.

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.

Can grassroots social movements impact the financial system?

An insider's look at the SEC and the changes needed to strengthen the U.

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

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.

Embrace uncertainty, seize opportunities, and thrive with the mindset of billionaires and start-up mavericks.

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.

In this myth-busting book Nouriel Roubini shows that everything we think about economics is wrong.

This book deals with the genesis and dynamics of exchange rate crises in fixed or managed exchange rate systems.

Before 2007, economists thought that financial crises would never happen again in the United States, that such upheavals were a thing of the past.

Europe is in a serious crisis but that it can face up to these challenges.

Understanding the Great Depression has never been more relevant than in today's economic crisis.

Why the global recession is in danger of becoming another Great Depression, and how we can stop it When the United States stopped backing dollars with gold in 1968, the nature of money changed.

Praise for Endgame "e;This is an extremely powerful, sobering, well-written and highly accessible book.

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.

The global health crisis, exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak, has challenged all sectors of society, including health, economics, finance, and social inequality.

The chapters in this book reflect on people's relationships with past financial crises - from public opinion to business leaders and policy makers.

This book provides critical insights on the systemic failures of corporate governance linked to the global financial crisis.

This book explains the links between past and present oil crises, financial crises, and geopolitical conflicts.

A leading economist contends that the recent financial crisis was caused not by the failure of mainstream economics but by corrupted monetary data constructed without reference to economics.

An insider's look at the SEC and the changes needed to strengthen the U.

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

The global health crisis, exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak, has challenged all sectors of society, including health, economics, finance, and social inequality.

This book provides critical insights on the systemic failures of corporate governance linked to the global financial crisis.

An informative primer on the new landscape of leading prime brokers Before the recent financial crisis, both regulators and market participants disregarded the complex and dangerous nature of the relationship between prime brokers (the banks) and their clients (the funds).