Economic and financial crises and disasters

Current debates about economic crises typically focus on the role that public debt and debt-fueled public spending play in economic growth.

Were the radical steps taken by the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve to avert the financial crisis legal?

In Urban Warfare, Rolnik charts how the financialisation of housing has become a global crisis, as models of home ownership, originating in the US and UK, are being exported around the world.

The 2008 global financial crisis, together with the experience of de-industrialization across Western Europe over the last three decades, has focussed attention on financial regulation and industrial policy.

What principled business leaders can do to solve America's current financial crisis Broke is a startling wake-up call for America and an honest accounting of what our future holds if we don't take charge and change our country for the better.

Tourism Through Troubled Times explores the unparalleled crisis within the current global tourism industry, which includes not only a wide range of risks that threaten economic activity but also a wider and deeper epistemological crisis.

'Overall, the book provides an interesting and useful synthesis of the authors research on the predictions of stock market crashes.

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

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.

Actions taken by the United States and other countries during the Great Recession focused on restoring the viability of major financial institutions while guaranteeing debt and stimulating growth.

Offering an analytical perspective on the design and reform of the international financial architecture, this book stresses the important role played by creditor co-ordination problems in the origin and management of crises by relating the insights of the new literature on global games to earlier work on currency crises, bank runs, and sovereign debt default.

Financial collapses-whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market-are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down.

This book provides critical insights on the systemic failures of corporate governance linked to the global financial crisis.

The #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller Required reading.

This book addresses the question of the extent of and responses to inequalities in the UK in 2017 in the wake of the 2008 Great Recession.

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

The international development sector has found itself confronting new challenges to poverty eradication and the promotion of human rights.

A wide-ranging analysis of the economic crisis of 1811 through the lens of a controversial poem.

Spekulationsblase am Neuen Markt, Bankenkrise 2008 und griechische Schuldenkrise – lauter Themen, die die Finanzmärkte bewegten und bewegen.

The 2008 financial crisislike the Great Depressionwas a world-historical event.

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

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the nagging issue of the Global South's debt back into the spotlight.

Europa sollte mal demokratisch werden.

Libertarian-conservative solutions to the political, social, economic and tax issues facing the United States from a 2012 Third Party Presidential contender, as well as one of America's leading Tea Party political leaders In today's uncertain economy, people are growing more and more concerned about their financial future, and looking for common sense, limited government solutions.

Dieses E-Book enthält komplexe Grafiken und Tabellen, welche nur auf E-Readern gut lesbar sind, auf denen sich Bilder vergrössern lassen.

In this bold history and manifesto, a former White House director of economic policy exposes the economic, political, and cultural cracks that wealthy nations face and makes the case for transforming those same vulnerabilities into sources of strength-and the foundation of a national renewal.

In this book leading economists evaluate how the world can best spend money to combat the world''s biggest problems.

The current financial crisis provides a valuable occasion for the world to re-examine the grand statements of wisdom which dominate the financial world for a long time.

After the Crisis reassesses the twin projects of structural reform and European integration in the wake of the Great Recession and the European Sovereign Debt Crisis.

The consensus on Alan Greenspan's performance as Fed chair used to be extremely positive, but more and more it's been called into question.

Big, unexpected changes are here to stay.

An insightful collection of essays focused on American men, women, and children from a range of economic classes and ethnic backgrounds during the Great Depression.

It has been four years since the financial crisis of 2008, and the global financial system still is experiencing malaise caused by high rates of unemployment; a lingering, unresolved supply of foreclosed properties; the deepening European debt crisis; and fear of a recurrence of the bank turmoil that brought about the Great Recession.

An engaging look at how modern finance almost destroyed our global economy Over the last thirty years, capital markets have been restructured through the tenets of modern finance.

Natural disasters, instability in the finance and banking sector, widespread social protests, and other crisis situations have increasingly become the focus of public attention.

'Overall, the book is highly technical, including full mathematical proofs of the results stated.

This book, Innovative Federal Policies During the Great Financial Crisis, contains discussions of unconventional monetary policies, policy changes to address systemic and payments systems risks, new macroprudential policies, the 'stretching' of the financial safety net, changes in the Fed's liquidity funding facility (the discount window), use of the Fed's balance sheet as a tool of monetary policy, and alternative means to deal with real-estate asset bubbles and potential financial instability.

This book provides a history of British financial crises since the Napoleonic wars.

The early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government.

Following books by Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely, noted economics professor William L.

The era-defining international bestseller - the definitive account of the global financial crash'Has all the drama of a Hollywood movie' Daily Telegraph'The definitive account' Sunday Times, Books of the YearThey were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions.

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

Immer wieder haben wir sie gehört und selbst angestimmt: die Klagelieder über die Zerstörung von Menschlichkeit, Kultur und natürlichen Ressourcen durch eine entfesselte Wirtschaft, die Moritaten über die planmäßige Produktion von gesellschaftlicher Ungleichheit im Interesse der Profite einiger Weniger.

The number one bestseller on the hardback list for more than six months, The State We're In is the most explosive analysis of British society to have been published for over thirty years.

From Donald Trump, to Brexit and the rise of nationalist populism across Europe, what role has the media played in shaping our current political moment?