Economic and financial crises and disasters

This book is the outcome of a South-South conference jointly organized by the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA), the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal, May 2012.

What is a green job anyway?

Understand Business Continuity, using ISO22301Have you ever wondered whether your business continuity plan is any good?

Economics is today among the most influential of all professions.

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.

In the ruins of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, progressives the world over clamoured to resurrect the economic theory of John Maynard Keynes.

When States Go Broke discusses the ongoing fiscal crisis among the American states.

In Dynamism, Rivalry, and the Surplus Economy, Janos Kornai examines capitalism as an economic system and in comparison to socialism.

The UK and Multi-level Financial Regulation examines the role of the United Kingdom (UK) in shaping post-crisis financial regulatory reform, and assesses the implications of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union (EU).

Translated by Ciaran Cronin.

Stochastic volatility is the main concept used in the fields of financial economics and mathematical finance to deal with time-varying volatility in financial markets.

Explains how the financial crisis spread across the world, how damage was contained and how the monetary world has changed.

We are pleased to announce that A Critical History of Financial Crises has been included in CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Title list.

The mortgage meltdown: what went wrong and how do we fix it?

Der König des Volksstamms der Sumsilen will die Armut seines Volkes beseitigen.

The consensus on Alan Greenspan's performance as Fed chair used to be extremely positive, but more and more it's been called into question.

The quality of working life has been central to the sociological agenda for several decades, and has also been increasingly salient as a policy issue, and for companies.

Systemic Risk: History, Measurement and Regulation presents an overview of this emerging form of risk from a global perspective.

Generation Z has grown up with a global financial crisis, a pandemic, the climate emergency, growing autocracy and wars.

Most accounts of the current financial crisis tell a story of deregulation, out-of-control markets and irresponsible speculation.

On June 28th 2012, the small island of Cyprus became the fifth government to request an economic bail-out from the Eurozone after losing access to international capital markets.

Can the eurozone's emergence from crisis turn into a real economic recovery and a new vision for Europe's future?

Systemic Risk opens new ground in the study of financial crises.

Credit rating agencies have been criticized for their role in the financial crisis by understating credit risk.

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

This book presents a detailed yet non-technical analysis of the recent financial crisis.

The Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional economists completely by surprise.

Ever since the Great Recession, the global financial regulatory system has undergone significant changes.

On June 28th 2012, the small island of Cyprus became the fifth government to request an economic bail-out from the Eurozone after losing access to international capital markets.

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

This book presents the Clarendon Lectures in Finance by one of the leading exponents of financial booms and crises.

The Concise Encyclopedia of the Great Recession 2007-2012 brings to the present the necessary information for understanding the first major recession of the 21st century and one of the deepest since the Great Depression itself.

This must-read for those in the financial business shines new light on puzzles and controversies and dispenses with conventional errors.

Inflation, hyperinflation and deflation have all had profound effects on societies, especially during periods of war and crisis.

A world-renowned economist offers cogent and powerful reflections on one of the great avoidable economic catastrophes of the modern era The economic crisis in Greece is a potential international disaster and one of the most extraordinary monetary and political dramas of our time.

Vocation, or calling - the idea that everyday work is the locus of Christian obedience - is, at first glance, peculiarly a theological notion.

We are pleased to announce that A Critical History of Financial Crises has been included in CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Title list.

** The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller**'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' GuardianWhat happens when you take on the European establishment?

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

The global financial crisis of 2008 was resolved over the course of two years after the collapse of the US housing bubble, but the world economy did not vigorously rebound as expected.

It has been four years since the financial crisis of 2008, and the global financial system still is experiencing malaise caused by high rates of unemployment; a lingering, unresolved supply of foreclosed properties; the deepening European debt crisis; and fear of a recurrence of the bank turmoil that brought about the Great Recession.

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.

Since 2008, we have found ourselves confronted by an historic financial holocaust that world leaders have struggled to come to terms with.

Nowhere in Europe are people more likely to enjoy a regular flutter in stocks and shares than in Britain.

This book presents the Clarendon Lectures in Finance by one of the leading exponents of financial booms and crises.