Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

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 ...

You Spend It. You Save It. You Never Have Enough of It. But how does money actually work?Understanding cash, currencies and the financial system is...

An insightful look at how to reform our broken financial system The financial crisis that unfolded in September 2008 transformed the United Stat...

The coming financial apocalypse and what government and individuals can do to insulate themselves against the worst shocks In this controversial b...

CNBC's David Faber takes an in-depth look at the causes and consequences of the recent financial collapse And Then the Roof Caved In lays bare the...

In 1997 it seemed that things in the City could only get better. For ten years everything went according to plan. Buoyed by a strong pound and chee...

You have been had.MARKETS ARE NOT MAGIC. DEBT IS NOT FREEDOM. THE GODS HAVE FAILED.A risk-prone, privatised profit-driven economic model overseen b...

The 2008 global financial crisis affects everyone, but its root causes and potential cures – knowledge necessary in order to make strong financial ...

The 2008 global financial crisis affects everyone, but its root causes and potential cures – knowledge necessary in order to make strong financial ...

Presents the empirical data of business cycles and the theories that economists have developed to explain and prevent them, and considers case stud...

As recently as 2007, the Irish economy was still booming and the state coffers overflowing; by the end of 2008, the state faces an unprecedented cr...

A world-renowned economist offers cogent and powerful reflections on one of the great avoidable economic catastrophes of the modern era The economi...

While Greece's debt crisis continues to dominate international headlines, the country has received remarkably little scholarly attention – especial...

The first book-length treatment to conclusively demonstrate the link between income inequality and the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession Pr...