Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

Former Prime Minister and the countrys longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decad...

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

Since the Global Financial Crisis, a surge of interest in the use of finance as a tool to address social and economic problems suggests the potenti...

Understanding state and local government revenue and expenditure patterns can help policymakers determine whether, when, where and how they provide...

Since the initiation of economic reforms 30 years ago, China has become one of the world''s fastest-growing economies. However, the current global ...

'A highly enjoyable exercise in financial disaster tourism... politically incorrect, often very funny, and shot through with genuine insight' Rober...

In The Shifts and the Shocks, Martin Wolf - one of the world's most influential economic commentators and author of Why Globalization Works - prese...

Global governance institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic Committee, are little loved. They are perceived a...

The Republic of Ireland, which declared itself in 1949, allowed the Catholic Church to dominate its civil society and education system. Investment ...

The politics of major banking crises has been transformed since the nineteenth century. Analyzing extensive historical and contemporary evidence, C...

The politics of major banking crises has been transformed since the nineteenth century. Analyzing extensive historical and contemporary evidence, C...

The financial crisis of 2007 and the following recession present a major challenge to macroeconomic theory. The same holds true for exceptionally l...

The world has long considered China a juggernaut of economic strength, but since the global financial crisis, the country's economy has ballooned i...

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

The book that has been waiting to be written how Irelands housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we sho...

Neoliberalism is dead. Again. Yet the philosophy of the free market and the strong state has an uncanny capacity to survive and even thrive in cris...