Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurre...

Understanding the Great Depression has never been more relevant than in today's economic crisis. This edited collection provides an authoritative i...

This book revisits John Kenneth Galbraith's classic text The Affluent Society in the context of the background to, and causes of, the global econom...

Alongside other types of mass atrocities, genocide has received extensive scholarly, policy, and practitioner attention. Missing, however, is the c...

This volume provides an accessible and up-to-date account of the difficulties that the Zimbabwean economy and its population experienced during the...

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By 2000, Ireland had achieved a remarkable macroeconomic performance producing 10% economic growth, a budget surplus, and a very low debt to GDP ra...

Financial crises are devastating in human and economic terms. To avoid the next one, it is important to understand the recent financial crisis of 2...

This book provides a history of British financial crises since the Napoleonic wars. Interest in crises lapsed during the generally benign financial...

The Great Financial Crisis that began in 2007 reminds us with devastating force that financial instability and crises are endemic to capitalist eco...

In Casino Capitalism Hans-Werner Sinn examines the causes of the banking crisis, points out the flaws in the economic rescue packages, and presents...

Stock market booms are cause for celebration. But when oil prices soar because supplies are failing to keep up with demand, the response is nearly ...

This book aims to identify and analyze the impact of the 2007-09 global financial crisis on Asian economies and to assess the short-term and longer...

Economics and political economy lack the analytical tools to explain the differing impact of the recent international financial crisis that erupted...

As the world's political and economic leaders struggle with the aftermath of the Financial Debacle of 2008, this book asks the question: have finan...

This book opens new ground in the study of financial crises. It treats the financial system as a complex adaptive system and shows how lessons from...

The worldwide financial crisis has wrought deep changes in capital and labor markets, old-age retirement systems, and household retirement and cons...

Our prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment-and bear responsibilit...

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

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Öf all the economic bubbles that have been pricked,¨ the editors of The Economist recently observed, ¨few have burst more spectacularly than the re...

Following the Rio Agreement in 1967, the birth of the Special Drawing Right (SDR) was widely heralded as the first step towards a world internation...

What causes a financial crisis? Can financial crises be anticipated or even avoided? What can be done to lessen their impact? Should governments an...

What is the relationship between the financial system and politics? In a democratic system, what kind of control should elected governments have ov...