Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

Crises have a way of clarifying things. The Left has always recognized that crises mean, first and foremost, untold suffering by the most vulnerabl...

From one of the most respected economic thinkers and writers of our time, a brilliant argument about the history and future of economic growth. The...

John Lanchester's Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay is the unbelievable true story of the economic crisis. We are, to use a te...

A timely narrative account of the biggest financial crisis in modern history and its human consequences by the author of Dresden and The Berlin Wal...

Brian Young took the pictures in The Train NYC, 1984, the year he moved to New York, when the city was recovering from an economic depression that ...

There are two volumes to Capitalism in Crisis. Volume 1 investigates what has gone wrong. Volume 2 responds to the challenge laid down in Volume 1....

When we start with the wrong question, no matter how good an answer we get, it won't give us the result we want. Rather than asking, 'When will thi...

This book analyses the major economic crisis that began in 2007-8 and continues in 2013. Carles Manera explains that it is not just a financial cri...

When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, ha...

An engaging look at what led to the financial turmoil we now find ourselves in Bailout Nation offers one of the clearest looks at the financial le...

The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind f...

In September 2008, beset by mounting losses on high-risk mortgages and mortgage securities, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation teetered on ...

Translated by Ciaran Cronin.   The world is a state of turmoil. From the financial crisis to the chaos in the eurozone, from the Arab uprisings to...

The 2008 crash was the worst financial crisis and the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression. It triggered a complete overhaul of...

Literature can be used to disseminate ideas with devastating real-life consequences. In How Bad Writing Destroyed the World, Adam Weiner spans deca...

On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance-not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radi...

'A fearless and important book . . . The End of Alchemy isn't just an elegant guide to the history of economic ideas. It also gives a genuine insid...

In the last decade, the EU has been hit by a series of crises, most recently the UK's decision to leave the union following the Brexit referendum. ...

How does a bear market in equities differ from a bull market? What lessons can be learned from events of the past quarter century in Japan? Have th...

Shortlisted for 2009 Australian Educational Publishing Awards. Athletes constantly strive to achieve excellence in their chosen sport - to impro...

The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, off...

The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, off...

The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depression. Flawed government ...

The Great Recession is more than four years oldand counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, Nations rich in resources, ta...

Angry Baby Katie Woods has a clear message for today's politicians: 'We (the generation of tomorrow) are not going to take this mess lying down.'Fo...

In THE CRASH OF 2016, Thom Hartmann describes a country not on the road to collapse, but in the midst of an economic implosion that could make the ...

Most accounts of the current financial crisis tell a story of deregulation, out-of-control markets and irresponsible speculation. But few of those ...

This is the true story about the future that few visionaries have the knowledge necessary to put together. In order to drive the development of tec...

Never before has there been such a period of intense change at every level of our society. Almost everything that we took for granted is now open ...