Economic and financial crises and disasters

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

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.

Many of the problems that lie at the heart of the current financial crisis stem from a significant but little-known development that occurred in the early 1980s: investors changed their investment criteria.

The USA is widely seen as the country at the centre of the recent economic crash.

A state-of-the-art overview of the impacts of structural reforms on growth, employment and inequality in Europe.

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

Tourism Through Troubled Times explores the unparalleled crisis within the current global tourism industry, which includes not only a wide range of risks that threaten economic activity but also a wider and deeper epistemological crisis.

Why Main Street blames financial speculation for economic crashesDisdain for short selling is as American as apple pie, dating back to our nation s founding.

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 definitive account of the tumultuous events that led to Ireland going broke in 2010From the night the Irish government guaranteed the debts of Irish banks in September 2008 Ireland was on a one-way road to ruin.

The first study to systematically analyze the patterns of China''s foreign policy crisis behavior after the Cold War.

'The Origin of Financial Crises' provides a compelling analysis of the forces behind the recent economic crisis.

Winner of the 2021 European Society of Modern Greek Studies Book PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Runciman AwardThe recent economic crisis in Greece has triggered national self-reflection and prompted a re-examination of the political and cultural developments in the country since 1974.

Setting macroeconomic policy is especially difficult in fragile states.

Libertarian-conservative solutions to the political, social, economic and tax issues facing the United States from a 2012 Third Party Presidential contender, as well as one of America's leading Tea Party political leaders In today's uncertain economy, people are growing more and more concerned about their financial future, and looking for common sense, limited government solutions.

Provides fresh analysis of the European financial system for undergraduate and graduate students of finance, economics and business.

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

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

This book examines the decision-making of key stakeholders in the financial services industry through the lens of recent work on epistemic virtues.

Through a diversity of primary source resources that include works by politicians and literary figures, book reviews, and interviews, this book enables student readers to better understand literature of the Great Depression in context through original documents.

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

Capitalism has become 'financialized'.

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.

Nicht nur Menschen haben sich mit Covid19 angesteckt, auch  die Wirtschaft ist infiziert.

Owing to the global financial crisis of 2007-2009 and subsequently the Eurozone crisis, the accession of Central and Eastern European countries to the European Union and the Eurozone has not been an easy one.

A wide-ranging analysis of the economic crisis of 1811 through the lens of a controversial poem.

Connections among different assets, asset classes, portfolios, and the stocks of individual institutions are critical in examining financial markets.

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

This book sets the record straight on why the Federal Reserve failed to rescue Lehman Brothers during the financial crisis.

Debt crises have placed strains not only on the European Union's nascent federal system but also on the federal system in the United States.

Examines how the international economy has become more connected via increased production, trade, capital flows and financial linkages.

Offering an analytical perspective on the design and reform of the international financial architecture, this book stresses the important role played by creditor co-ordination problems in the origin and management of crises by relating the insights of the new literature on global games to earlier work on currency crises, bank runs, and sovereign debt default.

Portugal war bekanntermaßen neben Griechenland, Spanien und Irland von der europäischen Schuldenkrise besonders stark betroffen.

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

The Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 has highlighted the resilience of the financial markets and broader economies from the developing world.

In Casino Capitalism Hans-Werner Sinn examines the causes of the banking crisis, points out the flaws in the economic rescue packages, and presents a master plan for the reform of financial markets.

By learning from inspiring individuals in the industry, finance professionals can pursue viable careers while benefiting society and upholding humanistic values.

CNBC's David Faber takes an in-depth look at the causes and consequences of the recent financial collapse And Then the Roof Caved In lays bare the truth of the credit crisis, whose defining emotion at every turn has been greed, and whose defining failure is the complicity of the U.

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.

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

Although there have been numerous studies of the causes and consequences of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2010 in the US and abroad, many of these were undertaken only for a small number of countries and before the financial and economic effects were fully realized and before various governmental policy responses were decided upon and actually implemented.

Many books on the 2008 financial crisis and the current recession focus on the financial sector.

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.

'Overall, the book provides an interesting and useful synthesis of the authors research on the predictions of stock market crashes.

Meltdown reveals how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was able to curb unsafe and unfair practices that led to the 2008 financial crisis.

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the nagging issue of the Global South's debt back into the spotlight.