Economic and financial crises and disasters

This book addresses the question of the extent of and responses to inequalities in the UK in 2017 in the wake of the 2008 Great Recession.

Setting macroeconomic policy is especially difficult in fragile states.

Financial collapses-whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market-are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down.

The financial crisis 2007-2009 clearly demonstrates the necessity to implement regulations for systemically important financial institutions to achieve overall financial stability.

Argues US leaders should re-evaluate housing policies and develop new ones that ensure Americans have access to affordable housing, whether rented or owned.

This book, based on the author's Clarendon Lectures in Finance, examines the empirical behaviour of corporate default risk.

The Great Financial Crisis that began in 2007 reminds us with devastating force that financial instability and crises are endemic to capitalist economies, and that it is only strong and dynamically-changing financial regulations that can keep the damage caused by these crises within bounds.

The history and science behind efforts to predict major disasters, from tsunamis to stock market crashesCan we predict cataclysmic disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or stock market crashes?

Unternehmen sehen sich heute mehr denn je mit einer Vielzahl unvorhersehbarer Krisen konfrontiert – von Naturkatastrophen über Cyberangriffe bis hin zu globalen Pandemien.

Financial Crises and the Limits of Bank Reform examines the responses that were implemented in France and Germany, two comparable European economies, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis from 2007/2008 with respect to the future economic role of the banks.

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.

'Overall, the book is highly technical, including full mathematical proofs of the results stated.

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.

Financial crises have been pervasive for many years.

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

In this book, former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis examines the European debt crisis with particular reference to the case of Greece.

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

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

This book argues that the current financial turmoil signals a crisis in globalisation that will directly challenge the free market economic model.

Die internationale Finanzkrise 2008 hat gezeigt, wie groß die Gefahren einer ausgeprägten Schieflage des Finanzsystems sind – die Auswirkungen machen weder an Sektoren- noch an Ländergrenzen halt.

Originally written for a conference of the Federal Reserve, Gary Gorton's "e;The Panic of 2007"e; garnered enormous attention and is considered by many to be the most convincing take on the recent economic meltdown.

This volume critically re-examines the profession's understanding of asset bubbles in light of the global financial crisis of 2007-09.

The book, authored in the main by Simon Stander and true to the interdisciplinary nature of political economy, focuses attention on why capitalism survives crises by developing the novel argument that it has moved on from its 19th century embodiment to include a class of shock absorbers.

Literature can be used to disseminate ideas with devastating real-life consequences.

In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, the regulation of the world's enormous derivatives markets assumed center stage on the international public policy agenda.

This highly original book puts the crash of 2008 into a broad perspective by digging deeply into the misguided theories behind the policies that allowed it to happen.

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.

Just as we need good food for good health, so too do we need 'good finance' for social and economic wellness.

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

An updated look at the United States' precarious position given the recent financial turmoil In The New Empire of Debt, financial writers Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin return to reveal how the financial crisis that has plagued the United States will soon bring an end to this once great empire.

Banks of all sorts are troubled institutions.

The global financial crisis and the Eurozone crisis have led to a profound rethink in East Asia about the international monetary system and regional monetary and financial integration.

Argues US leaders should re-evaluate housing policies and develop new ones that ensure Americans have access to affordable housing, whether rented or owned.

Financial Systems at the Crossroads: Lessons for China is written by leading financial experts to study the causes of financial disasters internationally.

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

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.

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?

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.

A collection of essays about the US Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 and the subsequent stagnation from prominent scholars.

Drawing on decades of on-the-ground experience, a strong body of existing research on the social construction of risk, and his own academic research, Terry Gibson demonstrates the transformative potential of current debates around de- and re-growth for disaster studies.

The financial crisis that erupted in 2007 has brought the issues of the size, risk, and regulation of banks to the attention of a wide audience.

It is estimated that between 2 and 5 per cent of global GDP (over $3 trillion) is laundered by criminals around the world every year.

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

Financial Systems at the Crossroads: Lessons for China is written by leading financial experts to study the causes of financial disasters internationally.