Economic and financial crises and disasters

The USA is widely seen as the country at the centre of the recent economic crash.

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

The great recession is changing the way many people live and the way they perceive their prospects for the near and more distant future.

Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedy to Deliberative Action investigates how democratic politics can unfold in creative and unexpected of ways even at the most trying of times.

The rapid growth and development of global transportation and communication technology systems are some key 21st century drivers, which provide faster, more accessible inter-continental connectivity, continuity, convergence and collaboration to create billions of opportunities for global citizens.

The rules of making money have changed-forever With the collapse of investment banks, trillion-dollar-plus government bailouts, and the Dow plunging like a rock, it's never been more important to understand-and actually profit from-the "e;new rules.

International capital flow and domestic financial market structures explain why some countries are more vulnerable to banking crises.

This book addresses the different forms of austerity, contestation and resistance, in order to understand how they relate to one another and the impact they have on the democratic quality of public debates, the trust in public institutions and the legitimacy of law.

Offers a novel explanation of the financial crisis and Great Recession that emphasizes the destruction of shared prosperity over the past thirty years.

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

The next economic storm and how to prepare for it--from a top decision-maker at BlackRockAn economic calamity is already looming on the horizon, and it's going hit the U.

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

On 9 October 2007, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) celebrated its leading role in the biggest deal in banking history, a record 71 billion euros for Dutch bank ABN Amro.

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

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

This book explores the effect of liquidity on asset prices, liquidity variations over time and how liquidity risk affects prices.

Winner of the 2021 European Society of Modern Greek Studies Book PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Runciman AwardThe recent economic crisis in Greece has triggered national self-reflection and prompted a re-examination of the political and cultural developments in the country since 1974.

A rare analytical look at the financial crisis using simple analysis The economic crisis that began in 2008 revealed the numerous problems in our financial system, from the way mortgage loans were produced to the way Wall Street banks leveraged themselves.

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

Praise for Endgame "e;This is an extremely powerful, sobering, well-written and highly accessible book.

This inquiry into the technical advances that shaped the 20th century follows the evolutions of all the principal innovations introduced before 1913 (as detailed in the first volume) as well as the origins and elaborations of all fundamental 20th century advances.

In September 2008 the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy ignited panic throughout the financial system, sparking a chain reaction that led to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression.

This book revisits John Kenneth Galbraith's classic text The Affluent Society in the context of the background to, and causes of, the global economic crisis that erupted in 2008.

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

The Meltdown Years offers the most lucid and useful explanation to date about why home values, life savings, job security, and investments around the world are in peril.

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

In this myth-busting book Nouriel Roubini shows that everything we think about economics is wrong.

Historical narrative integrated with graphs based on a unique dataset chronicle the last 200 years of monetary history in Norway.

Europe is in a serious crisis but that it can face up to these challenges.

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This volume uses state of the art models from the frontier of macroeconomics to answer key questions about how the economy functions and how policy should be conducted.

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

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

A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apart The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into "e;good"e; crises, which ultimately expand markets and globalization, and "e;bad"e; crises, which result in a smaller, less prosperous world.

Ireland''s experience of Europe''s most spectacular financial bubble, bust and recovery is narrated and dissected by a central banking insider.

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

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

In this latest volume of the Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management series, Professors John Diamond and Joyce Liddle have gathered leading scholars and new research to help discern some immediate areas of public policy making that have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Since the summer of 2007, credit markets in almost all industrial countries have been in substantial turmoil and this has become the focus of intense policy debates.

Prominent economists present detailed analyses of the conditions that made Greece vulnerable to economic crisis and offer policy recommendations for comprehensive and radical change.

Mitte September 2008 läutete der Zusammenbruch der Investmentbank Lehman Brothers den Beginn einer der größten Finanzkrisen aller Zeiten ein.

Since the mid-20th century, organizational theorists have increasingly distanced themselves from the study of core societal power centers and important policy issues of the day.

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

The mortgage meltdown: what went wrong and how do we fix it?