Economic and financial crises and disasters

The severe economic downturn has been blamed on many things: deregulation, derivatives, greedy borrowers, negligent lenders.

The international development sector has found itself confronting new challenges to poverty eradication and the promotion of human rights.

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

Historical narrative integrated with graphs based on a unique dataset chronicle the last 200 years of monetary history in Norway.

Wir stehen am Scheideweg unserer künftigen wirtschaftlichen, politischen und internationalen Ordnung.

The roots of the recent financial crisis can be found in the substantial changes which have affected British economy and society over the last three decades.

The New York Times bestseller'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric SchmidtWhat if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong?

In 1979, Margaret Thatcher's new government was faced with rampant double-digit inflation, rising unemployment and flatlining economic growth.

The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence.

Canada's social, economic, political, and environmental impacts on the Western Hemisphere have been largely overlooked by historians and other social scientists.

This book addresses the different forms of austerity, contestation and resistance, in order to understand how they relate to one another and the impact they have on the democratic quality of public debates, the trust in public institutions and the legitimacy of law.

Big, unexpected changes are here to stay.

The financial crisis of 200708 and the Great Recession caused more widespread economic trauma than any event since the Great Depression.

In 2008, the world was plunged into a financial and economic crash.

Global tourism has faced unprecedented challenges in previous years: the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental change and disaster, and financial difficulties have all contributed to rapid industry wide changes.

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.

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.

Written by a former World Bank economist, How Does My Country Grow?

The 2008 global financial crisis, together with the experience of de-industrialization across Western Europe over the last three decades, has focussed attention on financial regulation and industrial policy.

The Asian financial crisis has grown and spread.

Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and international bestselling author of Principles -whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide -shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well.

A comprehensive introduction to the ethical issues raised by modern finance.

A frank assessment of economists’ blindness before the financial crash in 2007–2008 and what must be done to avert a sequel The failure of economists to anticipate the global financial crisis and mitigate the impact of the ensuing recession has spurred a public outcry.

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Whether you are a seasoned manager who is considering a mid-career change or a college-bound graduate looking at future career in the health science profession, this book offers you a comprehensive, quick glimpse of the health care industry.

The 2008 recession left the United States in deep trouble.

An insightful collection of essays focused on American men, women, and children from a range of economic classes and ethnic backgrounds during the Great Depression.

The Canadian tariff has been a singularly faithful mirror of economic and political change in this country, but it is a glass through which much has been seen darkly.

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

The 1997 Asian Crisis principally affected Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Korea, as well as other East Asian countries heavily dependent on intra-regional trade.

In 2008, the world was plunged into a financial and economic crash.

Risk management solutions for today's high-speed investing environment Real-Time Risk is the first book to show regular, institutional, and quantitative investors how to navigate intraday threats and stay on-course.

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

Two Greek economic analysts explain the Greek financial crisis from beginning to end.

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

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

Agricultural societies founded in the colony of Upper Canada were the institutional embodiment of the ideology of improvement, modelled on contemporary societies in Britain and the United States.

The financial crisis of 2008 aroused widespread interest in banking and financial history among policy makers, academics, journalists, and even bankers, in addition to the wider public.

This book surveys 'thrift' through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, focussing in on key moments such as the early Puritans and Post-war rationing, and key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and Henry Thoreau.

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

This book revisits John Kenneth Galbraith's classic text The Affluent Society in the context of the background to, and causes of, the global economic crisis that erupted in 2008.

Sixteen countries across the world - including the United States and many European nations - have fallen into economic crises since the late 1990s.

Canterbery's latest literary work provides a definitive account of the Great Recession of 2007-2010.

Why are there so many crises in the world?

This book is an annual effort by the economists at the Nanyang Technological University to provide analysis, interpretations and insights of contemporary economic issues affecting Singapore and Asia.

In 1979, Margaret Thatcher's new government was faced with rampant double-digit inflation, rising unemployment and flatlining economic growth.

World in Crisis is a new book from one of the world's leading scholars.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBestselling author of The Four and NYU Business School professor delivers an insightful, urgent analysis of who stands to win and who's at risk to lose in a post-pandemic world.

Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis.