The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 was devastating for the region, but policymakers at least believed that they gained a great deal of knowledge on how to prevent, mitigate, and resolve crises in the future.
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?
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.
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.
When, after fifteen years of runaway growth based largely on property speculation, the Irish economy finally crashed, Ireland's bankers and developers tried to keep themselves out of sight.
"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.
On the evening of March 16, 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-five-year-old institution in the financial world, sold itself for an outrageously low price to the $2 trillion global behemoth JP Morgan Chase.
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.
In mid-2009 Simeon Djankov, who had dealt with a variety of economic and financial crises as chief economist for finance and private sector development at the World Bank, was suddenly thrust into the job of finance minister of his native Bulgaria.
As late as 2007, Anglo Irish Bank was a darling of the markets, internationally recognized as one of the fastest growing financial institutions in the world.
The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 was devastating for the region, but policymakers at least believed that they gained a great deal of knowledge on how to prevent, mitigate, and resolve crises in the future.
"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.
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.
Hopes and Prospects is Noam Chomsky's indispensable analysis of the world at present and a roadmap for the futureIn Hopes and Prospects, Noam Chomsky examines the challenges of our early twenty-first century.
*THENEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER* Tony Robbins, arguably the most recognizable life and business strategist and guru, is back with a timely, unique follow-up to his smash New York Times bestsellerMoney: Master the Game.
Power Systems is a searing collection of new insights from the mind of Noam Chomsky, the world's most prolific public intellectual and author of the best-selling Failed States, Hopes and Prospects and Occupy.
In mid-2009 Simeon Djankov, who had dealt with a variety of economic and financial crises as chief economist for finance and private sector development at the World Bank, was suddenly thrust into the job of finance minister of his native Bulgaria.
Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics, shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe.
Margaret Atwood erklärt uns mit faszinierender Klarheit, wie maßgeblich das Konzept der Schuld – im ökonomischen und im moralischen Sinn – unser Denken und Verhalten seit Anbeginn der menschlichen Kultur prägt und bestimmt.
El objetivo central de este trabajo es el de contribuir a que los lectores avancen en entendimientos disciplinados sobre el devenir de las bases productivas e institucionales de la economia ecuatoriana a lo largo de una primera bonanza petrolera (1965-1981), de dos decadas perdidas (1982-1999), de una segunda bonanza petrolera (2000-2014) y de un epilogo (2015-2017), en el cual la caida de los precios del crudo, al tiempo que la ha puesto en crisis, ha suscitado tambien una proliferacion de iniciativas encaminadas a ver como es que la patria sale del atolladero.
Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political discourse of America and beyond---a change prompted by a troubling fact: numerous measures of income inequality, especially in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century, have risen sharply in recent years.
Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political discourse of America and beyond---a change prompted by a troubling fact: numerous measures of income inequality, especially in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century, have risen sharply in recent years.
The FitzPatrick Tapes: The sensational story of the man and the bank that brought Ireland lowOne day in May 2009, Sean FitzPatrick - the disgraced former chief executive and chairman of Anglo Irish Bank - sat down to lunch in a Holiday Inn in Dublin.
From the author of the modern business classic The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a damning indictment of late-stage capitalism-and the leaders that were brutally unprepared for a global pandemic.
