Economic and financial crises and disasters

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The two most topical issues in current financial markets deal with the causes of the recent financial crisis and the means to prevent future crises.

Stochastic volatility is the main concept used in the fields of financial economics and mathematical finance to deal with time-varying volatility in financial markets.

Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis.

Meltdown reveals how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was able to curb unsafe and unfair practices that led to the 2008 financial crisis.

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

Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty examines the beginning of Canada's aerial war against forest insects and how a tiny handful of officials came to lead the world with a made-in-Canada solution to the problem.

The financial crisis has led to a far-reaching redesign of the European regulatory and supervisory framework.

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

Der Weltökonom Michael Hudson übt eine Fundamentalkritik am kapitalistischen Finanzsystem, die unser Denken verändern wird.

Just as we need good food for good health, so too do we need 'good finance' for social and economic wellness.

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality?

This edited volume will highlight recent research in derivatives modelling and markets in a post-crisis world across a number of dimensions or themes.

The fall and rise of a trillion-dollar industryJust three years ago, hedge funds were at the top of the investment world.

It was one of the gravest challenges faced by any British government in peacetime.

Nowhere in Europe are people more likely to enjoy a regular flutter in stocks and shares than in Britain.

Analyses banking regulation and recent international developments, including Basel IV, bank resolution and Brexit, and their impact on bank governance.

Before 2007, economists thought that financial crises would never happen again in the United States, that such upheavals were a thing of the past.

Neoliberalism is dead.

Explores how central bankers and finance ministers can compensate for political turmoil and manage market behaviour.

Why Main Street blames financial speculation for economic crashesDisdain for short selling is as American as apple pie, dating back to our nation s founding.

Through a diversity of primary source resources that include works by politicians and literary figures, book reviews, and interviews, this book enables student readers to better understand literature of the Great Depression in context through original documents.

Those who hoped the collapse of financial markets would usher in the end of neoliberalism and rehabilitate support for traditional social democratic policies programmes have been disappointed.

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This is a unique insider account of the new world of unfettered finance.

Covering events such as banking crises, economic bubbles, natural disasters, trade embargoes, and depressions, this single-volume encyclopedia of major U.

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Money and Finance After the Crisis provides a critical multi-disciplinary perspective on the post-crisis financial world in all its complexity, dynamism and unpredictability.

The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008.

The Euro Crisis produced the most significant challenge to European integration in 60 years testing the structures and powers of the European Union and the Eurozone and threatening the common currency.

Nowhere in Europe are people more likely to enjoy a regular flutter in stocks and shares than in Britain.

This book, based on the author's Clarendon Lectures in Finance, examines the empirical behaviour of corporate default risk.

Explains how the financial crisis spread across the world, how damage was contained and how the monetary world has changed.

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.

Risk and Hyperconnectivity brings together for the first time three paradigms: new risk theory, neoliberalization theory, and connectivity theory, to illuminate how the kaleidoscope of risk events in the opening years of the new century has recharged a neoliberal battlespace of media, economy, and security.

Iceland truly lived the boom and bust.

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

On June 28th 2012, the small island of Cyprus became the fifth government to request an economic bail-out from the Eurozone after losing access to international capital markets.

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.

Emerging relatively unscathed from the banking crisis of 2008, China has been viewed as a model of both rampant success and fiscal stability.

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality?

The euro's life, while only slightly more than a decade long, has been riddled by a series of challenges and crises.

Wenn in der kapitalistischen Gesellschaft soziale Probleme auftreten, wird dem in der Regel mit monetären Reformvorschlägen entgegengetreten.

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.

The coming financial apocalypse and what government and individuals can do to insulate themselves against the worst shocks In this controversial book a noted adherent of Austrian School of Economics theories advances the thesis that the United States is fast approaching the end stage of the biggest asset bubble in history.

As Wall Street rose to dominate the U.