Economic and financial crises and disasters

The return of the best-selling, award-winning economist extraordinaireWith the same powerful evidence, and range of reference, as his global bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century - and in columns of 700 words, rather than 700 pages - Chronicles sets out Thomas Piketty's analysis of the financial crisis, what has happened since and where we should go from here.

As we watch wave after wave of volatility threaten the global economy, it is tempting to ask, who is in charge here?

Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap.

The essential guide to Chomsky and his brilliant ideas on the global state of affairsAn extraordinary collection of Chomsky's speeches and his interviews with David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman.

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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.

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

From the international bestselling author of The Post-American World 'An intelligent, learned and judicious guide for a world already in the making' The New York TimesSince the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times.

The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in economic life.

If you like your smartphone or your widescreen TV, your car or your pension, then, whether you know it or not, you are a fan of Wall Street.

From Nobel Prize-winning economist and best-selling author Joseph Sitglitz, author of Globalization and Its Discontents, this is the essential, must-read guide to the future of Europe.

Why has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it?

The financial crisis prompted many to ask how financial systems from America and Iceland to Russia and Hungary could have been so misgoverned that their near collapse plunged the entire world into 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.

Stock market booms are cause for celebration.

Stock market booms are cause for celebration.

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

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

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

Why did some firms weather the financial crisis and others not?

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.

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

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse.

During the 1970s, monetarism and the new classical macroeconomics ushered in an era of neoliberal economic policymaking.

The European Economy between the Wars, (OUP, 1997) has become the definitive economic history of Europe in the inter-war period.

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

Why did some firms weather the financial crisis and others not?

This inquiry into the technical advances that shaped the 20th century follows the evolutions of all the principal innovations introduced before 1913 (as detailed in the first volume) as well as the origins and elaborations of all fundamental 20th century advances.

During the 1970s, monetarism and the new classical macroeconomics ushered in an era of neoliberal economic policymaking.

As Wall Street rose to dominate the U.

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

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse.

Economics is today among the most influential of all professions.

Economics is today among the most influential of all professions.

Exchanges play an essential and central role in the world's economy.

This book explains why moral beliefs can and likely do play an important role in the development and operation of market economies.

Our prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment-and bear responsibility for outcomes.

The subprime crisis shook the American economy to its core.

Financial crises have been pervasive for many years.

The subprime crisis shook the American economy to its core.

Our prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment-and bear responsibility for outcomes.

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.

"e;Of all the economic bubbles that have been pricked,"e; the editors of The Economist recently observed, "e;few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of economics itself.

"e;Of all the economic bubbles that have been pricked,"e; the editors of The Economist recently observed, "e;few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of economics itself.

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.

International institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic Committee, are perceived as bastions of sclerotic mediocrity at best and outright corruption at worst, and this perception is generally not far off the mark.

The euro's life, while only slightly more than a decade long, has been riddled by a series of challenges and crises.

The euro's life, while only slightly more than a decade long, has been riddled by a series of challenges and crises.

The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008.

The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008.