Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

As interest in financial markets intensifies, stimulated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century, this book aims to enrich our un...

Credit rating agencies have been criticized for their role in the financial crisis by understating credit risk. The US subprime mortgage crisis hig...

The financial crisis, which originated in developed country financial markets, quickly spread to developing countries. Governments and central bank...

In The Great American Stickup , celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our t...

Out of the crisis of our times, Joseph Stiglitz's Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy is a convincing, coherent and humane...

From Black Monday to the Asian financial crisis, from the internet bubble to mortgage meltdown, our lives are ruled by crazy cycles of euphoria and...

First Published in 1990 Economic Policy Alternatives for the Latin American Crisis aims to explore macroeconomic policy alternatives available to L...

This book offers a critical engagement with languages that describe, perpetuate, respond to, and resist economic crises. Unlike many volumes on eco...

This comprehensive historical account tells the story of 200 years of financial panics in America, from 1819 through to the economic hardship of 20...

This book offers a critical engagement with languages that describe, perpetuate, respond to, and resist economic crises. Unlike many volumes on eco...

The consequences of the global economic crisis which started in the United States in 2007-08 are still being felt in most of the advanced economies...

Soviet foreign policy in the Stalin era is commonly assumed to have been a direct product of either Marxist ideology or the leader's whims. Both as...

The consequences of the global economic crisis which started in the United States in 2007-08 are still being felt in most of the advanced economies...

Although the triggering effect of economic crises on revolt is a classic sociological topic, crises have until recently mostly triggered large-scal...

An original analysis of the war between the two opposing sides of Italy's national character Not long ago Italy was Europe's highly touted emerging...

The enormous turnout in Washington, DC, for Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration and the worldwide rejoicing at this signal of change offered a...

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

Alternative Spaces/Transformative Places addresses the rise of unruly spaces in society, as well as communicative strategies that citizens and acti...

Ireland has been marketed as the poster boy of EU austerity. EU elites and neoliberal commentators claim that the country's ability to suffer econo...

The book aims at offering a comparative, multi-perspective analysis of the different, at times parallel, at times with varying degrees of interdepe...

The “managerial revolution,” or the rise of management as a distinct and vital group in industrial society, might be identified as a major develo...

Debates over the role of government have intensified in the wake of America's deepest financial crisis since the Depression. This book suggests new...

In 2007-8 the world economy started its heady journey to recession. The Queen herself asked "why didn’t we see this coming," but it’s a question th...

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

Long before the financial meltdown and the red alert on climate change, some far-sighted innovators diagnosed the fatal flaws in an economic system...

The European economy is emerging from its deepest recession since the 1930s. This volume, which brings together economic analysis from the European...

Debates over the role of government have intensified in the wake of America's deepest financial crisis since the Depression. This book suggests new...

In 2007-8 the world economy started its heady journey to recession. The Queen herself asked "why didn’t we see this coming," but it’s a question th...

A British financier and his wife host a lavish dinner party for their affluent American friends. It’s over a year since the two couples were toget...

Response to financial meltdown is entangled with basic challenges to global governance. Environment, global security and ethnicity and nationalism ...

With the specter of prosecution after his term is over and the possibility of disbarment in Arkansas hanging over President Clinton, the Clinton-Le...

An updated and revised look at the truth behind America's housing and mortgage bubbles In the summer of 2007, the subprime empire that Wall Street ...