Economic and financial crises and disasters

The 2008 recession left the United States in deep trouble.

This book explores the complex developments that have shaped Ireland's economic development, north and south, and led to recurring crises and instability.

'The emerging rock-star of Europe's anti-austerity uprising.

'The emerging rock-star of Europe's anti-austerity uprising.

Europe is suffering from a bipolar economic disorder.

Europe is suffering from a bipolar economic disorder.

One of the most salient features of the 2007-9 global financial crisis was the role played by global banking and multinational banks in transmitting international financial shocks and maintaining credit stability in domestic and international financial markets.

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.

Workers experience an increasingly uncertain future and many have been forced to search for jobs in a highly competitive market.

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

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

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The definitive big picture on the financial crisis, from the man behind the Oscar-winning documentary that exposed the workings of the new economic elite Based on explosive interviews, court documents and corporate archives, Inside Job traces in gripping detail how decades of deregulation gave birth to a predator nation, with power players cycling through positions in government, academia and Wall Street and continuing to do so even in the wake of the global financial crisis.

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

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

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

We are living through a cost of living crisis, with interest rate hikes and the prices of everyday consumables and energy bills sky-rocketing.

During the 2008 financial crisis, wealth strategist Garrett Gunderson made his timely debut into the literary world with his ground breaking book, Killing Sacred Cows, where he exposed the ingrained fallacies and destructive myths surrounding money and wealth.

In the 1920s, the United States experienced an economic crisis.

Summary, Analysis & Review of George Packer's The Unwinding by InstareadPreview:The Unwinding by George Packer is an account of the decline of American institutions since 1978.

I urge everyone to read this important new book.

Money Mania is a sweeping account of financial speculation and its consequences, from ancient Rome to the Meltdown of 2008.

The European debt crisis has posed a challenge for many people to understand, both non-Europeans and Europeans alike.

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.

Robust financial markets support capitalism, they don't imperil it.

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.

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.

'Cristina Alger's debut novel offers a fresh and modern glimpse into New York's high society.

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

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

'Superb' - Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up Money is essential to the economy and how we live our lives, yet is inherently worthless.

This book surveys 'thrift' through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, focussing in on key moments such as the early Puritans and Post-war rationing, and key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and Henry Thoreau.

This book surveys 'thrift' through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, focussing in on key moments such as the early Puritans and Post-war rationing, and key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles and Henry Thoreau.

In this book, former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis examines the European debt crisis with particular reference to the case of Greece.

In this book, former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis examines the European debt crisis with particular reference to the case of Greece.

Using extensive documentary evidence and interviews with former Lehman employees, Oonagh McDonald reveals the decisions that led to Lehman's collapse, investigates why the government refused a bail-out and whether the implications of this refusal were fully understood.

Using extensive documentary evidence and interviews with former Lehman employees, Oonagh McDonald reveals the decisions that led to Lehman's collapse, investigates why the government refused a bail-out and whether the implications of this refusal were fully understood.

Nicolas Darvas was a world famous dancer and a self-taught investor.

Bagehot was one of the first writers to describe and explain the world of international and corporate finance, banking, and money in understandable language.

To make and invest money, one must understand how the financial systems work.

The Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional economists completely by surprise.

The global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision-making in the grey zone between economics and politics.

We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society.

Literature can be used to disseminate ideas with devastating real-life consequences.

Literature can be used to disseminate ideas with devastating real-life consequences.

The River Barons charts the development of the business community in Montreal through the crucial years between 1837 and 1853, when the small commercial fraternity of the 1830s, responding to the challenge of a transportation revolution, grew much more complex and diversified.

Vocation, or calling - the idea that everyday work is the locus of Christian obedience - is, at first glance, peculiarly a theological notion.

Between 1760 and 1860, the English countryside was subject to constant attempts at agricultural improvement.