Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

Robert Nelsons Reaching for Heaven on Earth, Economics as Religion, and The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Conte...

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed extraordinary demands on leaders compelled to navigate a complex, far-reaching event that threatened human life, b...

Financial crises aggravated by high-leveraged financial institutions and/or heavily indebted private agents occur rarely but their economic impacts...

The 2007-2009 recession was long and deep, and according to several indicators was the most severe economic contraction since the 1930s (but still ...

'The most explosive, mind-blowing business book I've ever read' Bradley Hope, New York Times bestselling author of Billion Dollar Whale'Jaw-droppi...

Can we really end poverty in Britain?Yes, we can.In this groundbreaking book, Helen Rowe brings together the latest research with stories from acro...

WINNER OF THE 2019 MADAME DE STAËL PRIZE AND THE 2018 LEONTIEF PRIZE FOR ADVANCING THE FRONTIERS OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & M...

The UK and Multi-level Financial Regulation examines the role of the United Kingdom (UK) in shaping post-crisis financial regulatory reform, and as...

Conventional wisdom says that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) functions as the de facto international lender of last resort (ILLR) for the gl...

In responding to the financial crash of 2008, both the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration have relied on prescriptions developed by J...

Fiscal Therapy shows how to make America's economy stronger and fairer by meeting long-term budget challenges while also addressing its short-term ...

Jean Lescures two-volume General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction is a pioneering study of the causes and consequences of industrial crises in...

The health emergency that broke out in 2020 is a landmark event in the development of capitalism, confirming the underlying change signalled by the...

A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations ap...

Praise for Endgame This is an extremely powerful, sobering, well-written and highly accessible book. It will demonstrate to you why there are no pa...

This book examines the main causes of financial instability and highlights that,with the exception of wars and pandemics, the financial system is t...

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