Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

The idea was simple: pack a suitcase, go to another city where you have no connections and try to find a job, anonymously. That was the idea that t...

An authoritative insider''s perspective, this book penned by the governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand chronicles the global financial and ec...

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spendi...

Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy in the last three decades, although there is ...

Various politicians present themselves as having the answers to our financial woes yet, as bestselling author Guy Fraser-Sampson shows, they are no...

We live in a time of great social, political and economic crisis that many date to the collapse of the global banking system in 2008. Many are find...

In the last thirty-five years, politicians of all parties in government ceded power over fundamental sectors of our economy to a new oligarchy of c...

Since the revelation of its massive hidden deficit in late 2009, Greece has been at the centre of the world's attention. Observers around the globe...

Vince Cable's bestselling book, The Storm, explored and explained the causes of the 2008 world economic crisis and how Britain should respond to th...

An in-depth look at the problems surrounding zombie banks and their dangerous effect on the global economy The title is worthy of a B movie, but it...

Darryl Cunningham''s latest graphic investigation takes us to the heart of free-world politics and the financial crisis, as he traces the roots of ...

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...