Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

**A TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of a firm whose work has made your world more unequal, more corrupt and mor...

As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on greedy traders, lazy regulators, or clueless home buye...

This book examines the domestic electoral consequences of the economic and financial crisis in Europe, particularly in those countries where the cr...

Italy from Crisis to Crisis seeks to understand Italy’s approach to crises by studying the country in regional, international, and comparative cont...

The financial and economic crisis in Europe is not over, and the radically opposing strategies on how to proceed has only increased the complexity ...

The Answer to Global Overload Contending with the 24/7 news cycle and an endless barrage of choices and information has stymied leadership and deci...

With the financial crisis continuing after five years, people are questioning why economics failed either to send an adequate early warning ahead o...

In 1921 Austria became the first interwar European country to experience hyperinflation. The League of Nations, among other actors, stepped in to h...

Predatory lending of subprime mortgages targeting the most economically vulnerable minority communities helped trigger the current global financial...

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

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

The 21st century marks a watershed in the history of the human economic condition. Income and wealth inequalities are now greater than ever before ...

In 2008 another economic crisis emerged in the long history of capitalism which created a period of ‘austerity economics’ across many nations. Cult...

The global financial crisis of 2008 was resolved over the course of two years after the collapse of the US housing bubble, but the world economy di...

In far too many cases, recommendations of forensic reports on previous pandemics were ignored. Substantial weaknesses in the preparation by public ...

This book analyses the financing problems of Greek small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), within a liberalized financial system and within an e...

This book analyses the logic of applying the American Post-Keynesian economist Hyman Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis (FIH) to the financi...

Barely two decades after the Asian financial crisis Asia was suddenly confronted with multiple challenges originating outside the region: the 2008 ...

Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political di...

The international economic crisis has hit Europe, especially its ‘periphery’, remarkably hard, and has had deep consequences at the economic and po...

Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political di...

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...

Despite the depth of the Greek crisis, the exorbitant burdens placed upon the working people and the massive popular resistance movement to capital...

In 2008 another economic crisis emerged in the long history of capitalism which created a period of ‘austerity economics’ across many nations. Cult...

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

Incorporating a broad range of economic approaches, Understanding Financial Crises explores the merits of various arguments and theories which have...

In 2006 residential real estate prices peaked and started to fall, then threatened the world's financial institutions in 2007, and confronted the g...