Economic and financial crises and disasters

Soviet foreign policy in the Stalin era is commonly assumed to have been a direct product of either Marxist ideology or the leader's whims.

How the actions of a few in Europe destroyed the prosperity of the many (and how it's happening again now in America) After the fall of the Roman Empire, vicious barbaric tribes including the Hunds lead by Atilla, the Mongols, Charlemagne and the Vikings invaded Europe, plundering property and destroying homes.

Managing Risk and Decision Making in Times of Economic Distress: Part B adds much needed scholarly analysis of the fledgling decision/control approach, arguing the merits of its empirical content to shed light on the structure of capital contracts and rationale for diversity of objectives.

Discover how the global financial plague is poised to return, and what can be done to stop it This is not your father's financial system.

This book proposes a solution to the ''too big to fail'' problem that will help to prevent future financial crises.

This book provides edited selections of primary source material in the intellectual history of competition policy from Adam Smith to the present day.

Keeping the economy strong will require addressing two distinct but related problems.

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

Big, unexpected changes are here to stay.

The early twenty-first century has seen a conspicuous absence of formal international law concerning money and finance.

The global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision-making in the grey zone between economics and politics.

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.

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.

Following the financial and public debt crisis, the EU's Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has been under intense political scrutiny.

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

An informative primer on the new landscape of leading prime brokers Before the recent financial crisis, both regulators and market participants disregarded the complex and dangerous nature of the relationship between prime brokers (the banks) and their clients (the funds).

This book provides the first comprehensive account of post-crisis international regulation of derivatives by bringing together the international relations literature on regime complexity and the international political economy literature on financial regulation.

In The Credit Crunch, Graham Turner predicted that banks would be nationalised and interest rates would be reduced too slowly to halt the crisis.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKPROFILED IN THE NEW YORKER, A TELEGRAPH AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'Riveting' - Telegraph'Enthralling' - Observer'Gripping' - Sunday Times'An antidote to despair' - Daily MirrorWhen a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring.

An industry insider reveals the inner workings of our financial system and the agencies who attempt to control it During his dozen years as an SEC attorney, author Richard Sauer opened and supervised some of its most notable financial cases-investigations that took him to a dozen countries and returned hundreds of millions of dollars to American investors.

Alongside other types of mass atrocities, genocide has received extensive scholarly, policy, and practitioner attention.

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.

Joyce traces the IMF''s actions to promote international financial stability from the Bretton Woods era through the recent recession.

An outline of how the economy works by an insider-turned-outsider.

Capitalism has become 'financialized'.

'The emerging rock-star of Europe's anti-austerity uprising.

Financial risk management is a topic of primary importance in financial markets.

Why are there so many crises in the world?

The financial crisis exposed the potentially unsavory results of the interaction between low- and moderate income households and alternative and mainstream financial institutions.

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

The new, fully-updated edition of the respected guide to understanding financial extremes, evaluating investment opportunities, and identifying future bubbles Now in its second edition, Boombustology is an authoritative, up-to-date guide on the history of booms, busts, and financial cycles.

This book offers a comprehensive political analysis of the Euro crisis that erupted in Greece in 2010 and subsequently threatened the very survival of the Euro area.

This book uses perspectives of finance and banking to offer predictions on future financial crises, and how we can prepare for them.

Tourism is not only affected by pandemics and epidemics but also contributes to their spread, affecting not only tourists but also the communities in their destinations.

Syriza's victory in the recent Greek general election shook the foundations of the Western political establishment and gave hope to the millions suffering the austerity measures imposed by the European Troika.

WINNER OF THE 2019 MADAME DE STA L PRIZE AND THE 2018 LEONTIEF PRIZE FOR ADVANCING THE FRONTIERS OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018Who really creates wealth in our world?

An analysis of the enduring social costs of the post-2008 economic crisis 2008 was a watershed year for global finance.

Krisen können Ökonomien von innen heraus verändern, neue Epochen einleiten und Kultursysteme neu konfigurieren.