Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

The one book you need to read if you want to understand the financial world.For fans of Michael Lewis's THE BIG SHORT and Andrew Ross Sorkin's TOO ...

While most mainstream commentators view the crisis that provoked the Great Recession as having passed, these essays from Richard Wolff paint a far ...

The performance of the British economy over the past fifty-odd years does not make for comforting reading. Indeed, the story is a depressing catalo...

Money issues dominate the news, but economic jargon and the complexity of it all can be bamboozling for regular folks. Paul Sheard, a leading econo...

The definitive big picture on the financial crisis, from the man behind the Oscar-winning documentary that exposed the workings of the new economic...

An eminent economist warns that Western nations economic expectations for the future are way out of sync with the realities of economic stagnation ...

Under the incurious gaze of the major media, the political establishment and the financial sector have become increasingly deceitful and dangerous ...

This book is about the global environmental and economic crisis. It challenges the whole global economic system and its underlying beliefs, assumpt...

As featured on CNNs Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4s Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial Times best books of 2021...

The 2007-08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the economic and social costs of financialization. Understanding wh...

Greece has always been celebrated for its classical past, whitewashed villages and cerulean seas, but in recent years the country has been at the c...

A penetrating critique tracing how under-regulated trading between European and U.S. banks led to the 2008 financial crisiswith a prescription for ...

In this urgent and timely book, Vince Cable explains the causes of the world economic crisis and how we should respond to it. He shows that althoug...

Longlisted for the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015. In September 2008, HBOS, with assets larger than Britain's GDP, was on the...

THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1...

Over the last two months, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a robust American economy into disarray, completely shutting down major business sectors...

As we begin the process of reopening our economy, it is critical that we get back to work. The economic shutdown was intended to slow the spread of...

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...

In the 1920s, the United States experienced an economic crisis. The public called it the Great Depression. This dark history lasted for 10 years, s...

The Concise Encyclopedia of the Great Recession 2007-2012 brings to the present the necessary information for understanding the first major recessi...

How can a banking system become so unregulated that it offers a gold credit card to a dog? For Channel 4's Economics Editor Faisal Islam, these are...