Economic and financial crises and disasters

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

Systemic Risk opens new ground in the study of financial crises.

In July 2007, the then chief executive of Citigroup, Charles Prince, captured the hubris of a market dangerously addicted to debt: "e;When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated.

Janet Tavakoli takes you into the world of Warren Buffett by way of the recent mortgage meltdown.

There has been little analysis of the constitutional framework for management of the UK economy, either in constitutional law or regulatory studies.

This meticulously documented work sets forth the major causes of the greatest asset bubble in world economic history-the American housing bubble, which began in 1940 and collapsed in 2007.

Exchange rates, growth and crises is a collection that captures the author's ringside perspective of events as they unfolded in the large and tumultuous world of finance and economics over the past 25 years (post liberalization).

Government-Nonprofit Relations in Times of Recession brings together contributions by international scholars to examine how the relationships between governments and nonprofit organizations have shifted as a result of the global recession.

An incisive look at the consequences of today's costly and damaging suburban lifestyle In The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome, Bloomberg News' John Wasik exposes the economic, cultural, environmental, and health problems underlying life in suburbia.

Triggered by the US subprime mortgage crisis in 2007, the Financial Tsunami is the most serious global financial crisis since the Great Depression.

Why do climate and financial crises pose such extreme risks?

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.

This book shows how the world financial crisis has struck the euro area and examines policies to ensure its future viability.

Presents the empirical data of business cycles and the theories that economists have developed to explain and prevent them, and considers case studies of recessions and depressions in the United States and internationally.

This Element explains how divisions between insiders and outsiders among firms and workers in the Arab world hold back development.

The audit committee has gained considerable attention in the aftermath of 2007-2009 global financial crisis.

Systemic Risk: History, Measurement and Regulation presents an overview of this emerging form of risk from a global perspective.

Systemic Risk: History, Measurement and Regulation presents an overview of this emerging form of risk from a global perspective.

A unique insight into the interaction between the state, financiers and entrepreneurs in the modern innovation economy.

The financial crisis of 2007 and the following recession present a major challenge to macroeconomic theory.

The 2008 global economic crisis resulted in many new changes in global economic governance, multilateral trading system, the Group20 major economies, regional economic cooperation and other international governance platforms.

Since the first edition of this book, the world's financial system went through its greatest crisis for a century.

Reveals why bubbles happen, and why some have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences whilst others have actually benefited society.

Barely two decades after the Asian financial crisis Asia was suddenly confronted with multiple challenges originating outside the region: the 2008 global financial crisis, the European debt crisis, and finally developed economies' implementation of unconventional monetary policies.

In recent years, the world has been rocked by major economic crises, most notably the devastating collapse of Lehman Brothers, the largest bankruptcy in American history, which triggered the breathtakingly destructive sub-prime disaster.

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.

Credit rating agencies have been criticized for their role in the financial crisis by understating credit risk.

Examines how the international economy has become more connected via increased production, trade, capital flows and financial linkages.

The worldwide financial crisis has wrought deep changes in capital and labor markets, old-age retirement systems, and household retirement and consumption patterns.

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

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

Welfare and the Great Recession surveys and analyses welfare consequences in the period following the financial crisis in Europe.

After the financial crisis, what important lessons can we learn from fiscal policy?

By 2000, Ireland had achieved a remarkable macroeconomic performance: 10% economic growth annually, a budget surplus, and a very low debt to GDP ratio.

'Walden Bello is the world's leading no-nonsense revolutionary.

Das neue Buch von Thomas Gebert ist das Resultat vieler Anfragen der Leser seines Börsenbriefs und seiner Kolumnen.

This book discusses the role of central banks and draws lessons from examining their evolution over the past two centuries.

Bestselling author and professor Ted Malloch calls for real financial reform to restore confidence and fairness to a broken system From Ponzi schemes to the credit crisis to the real estate bubble, the financial industry seems to have lost its way on the road to riches.

CNBC's David Faber takes an in-depth look at the causes and consequences of the recent financial collapse And Then the Roof Caved In lays bare the truth of the credit crisis, whose defining emotion at every turn has been greed, and whose defining failure is the complicity of the U.

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

The book analyzes the nature of Chinese economy which enables it to go through the financial tsunami pretty unscathed.

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, economists around the world have advanced theories to explain the persistence of high unemployment and low growth rates.

What is the relationship between the financial system and politics?

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.

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

A history of artisan production in colonial and post-independence India, and its role in the country''s society and economics.