Economic and financial crises and disasters

Möchten Sie Ihre Finanzen endlich in den Griff bekommen und systematisch Vermögen aufbauen?

Warum werden die Reichen immer reicher?

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

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

A lively, engaging and counterintuitive exploration of success stories from across the globe, and what Michelle Obama referred to as 'the flimsy difference between success and failure'.

The sensational human story of the hunt for oil, and the politics, power and personalities involved.

At the beginning of the financial crisis, in September 2008, Gordon Brown called an emergency press conference in which he declared, 'we will do whatever it takes to restore stability in the financial markets'.

Winner of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize'Majestic, informative and often delightful .

From the author of the New York Times Notable Book of the Year Drive By comes a unique and riveting exploration of one of America’s largest and fastest-growing industries—the business of poverty.

With new material on the astonishing 2014–15 monetary rollercoaster, an incisive chronicler of the euro’s upheavals explains how Europe’s single currency has lurched in and out of crisis—with widespread repercussions for Britain and the rest of the world.

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

Die Zeiten ständigen realen Wirtschaftswachstums in der westlichen Welt sind vorbei.

With new material on the astonishing 2014–15 monetary rollercoaster, an incisive chronicler of the euro’s upheavals explains how Europe’s single currency has lurched in and out of crisis—with widespread repercussions for Britain and the rest of the world.

El mundo que hoy conocemos, desigual y en guerra, con China en estrecha competencia con Estados Unidos para convertirse en la primera potencia, empezó a gestarse con la caída del muro de Berlín, en 1989.

Europe has not been so weak and divided for a long time.

Europe has not been so weak and divided for a long time.

After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition.

The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding.

In this short, highly readable book, the master of world-systems theory provides a succinct anatomy of capitalism over the past five hundred years.

Under the incurious gaze of the major media, the political establishment and the financial sector have become increasingly deceitful and dangerous in recent years.

Now shortlisted for the 2012 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf is a resonant exploration of economic behaviour and its consequences.

First, there was the credit crunch, and governments around the world stepped in to bail out the banks.

Meltdown is the gripping account of the financial collapse that destroyed the West's investment banks, brought the global economy to its knees, and undermined three decades of neoliberal orthodoxy.

Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet.

¿Las lealtades tribales han distorsionado la profesión económica y cegado los ojos de los economistas a lo obvio?

Die Wahrheit über Geld?

Este libro está diseñado para un curso en el cual los estudiantes tienen el interés profesional, o la necesidad para su trabajo de investigación, de aprender los fundamentos de las finanzas modernas.

Ich krieg' die Krise!

Risk has emerged as a key mechanism for controlling the future and learning from past misfortunes.

One day, everything is going well; the next, disaster strikes.

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.

How did we get to where we are?

Auster's novel of love and forgiveness from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' (Guardian)Sunset Park is set in the sprawling flatlands of Florida, where twenty-eight-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure.

*WINNER* 'SHORT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR' - THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2021Unicorns, narwhals, yaks, cows and civets - what have all these creatures got to do with your hard-earned cash?

THE TOP TEN BESTSELLER, NOW AN AWARD-WINNING NETFLIX HIT'Effortlessly brilliant .

Greece has always been celebrated for its classical past, whitewashed villages and cerulean seas, but in recent years the country has been at the centre of a debt crisis that has sown economic ruin, spurred panic in international markets, and tested Europe's decades-old project of forging a closer union.

How can a banking system become so unregulated that it offers a gold credit card to a dog?

Die westliche Welt ist Veränderungen ausgesetzt, die zu ihrem Niedergang und dem Verlust der Zweitausendjährigen Herrschaft über den Rest der Welt führen wird.

Features updated material and a special foreword from Arianna for the UK audienceIt's not an exaggeration to say that the hard-working, average citizen on an average income is an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable standard of living has become outdated.

Die Finanzierung der Menschheit wird immer problematischer, gleichzeitig wird unser Planet immer mehr als Überlebensraum gefährdet.

Ser argentino puede resultar una experiencia impagable.

La clase media creía en el futuro: confiaba en que si cumplía lo que se le había asignado el porvenir le sonreiría, que la madurez sería económicamente mejor que la juventud, que sus hijos vivirían mejor que ellos y que sus opciones vitales se ampliarían.

Siete años después del inicio de la crisis financiera, este libro da testimonio del fulgor y muerte de las cajas de ahorro españolas.

We are bombarded with images of poverty, terrorism, war and collapsing states.