Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

Janet Tavakoli takes you into the world of Warren Buffett by way of the recent mortgage meltdown. In correspondence and discussion with him over 2 ...

The new, fully-updated edition of the respected guide to understanding financial extremes, evaluating investment opportunities, and identifying fut...

Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn't fall. But the spectacular boom and bust of the housing market during the first decade of the ...

Along with its painful economic costs, the financial crisis of 2008 raised concerns over the future of international policy making. As in recession...

The crisis of global capitalism that has unfolded since 2008 is more than an economic crisis. It is structural and multidimensional. The sequence o...

The euro was generally considered a success in its first decade. Nevertheless, the unanticipated financial crisis in the summer of 2007 has develop...

'Robert Peston's compelling account of global financial meltdown is a must-read.' ObserverWhat can we learn from the 2008 recession? ITV's politica...

The Great Financial Crisis of 2008 that is still haunting western democracies has not been a mere bump in the road of economic growth. It has inaug...

In August of 2007, the debt-fuelled bubble that had created an illusion of prosperity across the western world burst, leading to an international f...

In recent years, a financial crisis not encountered for almost half a century broke out globally, deeply affecting the economy of China. This book ...

In August 2007, asset-backed securities (ABS), particularly those backed by subprime mortgages, suddenly became illiquid and fell sharply in value ...

Between January 2008 and December 2011, a period of economic downturn in the United States, 414 insured U.S. banks failed. Of these, 85 percent or ...

Written for undergraduate and graduate students of finance, economics and business, the fourth edition of Financial Markets and Institutions provid...

This innovative analysis investigates a complex issue of tremendous economic and political importance: what makes some countries vulnerable to bank...

Once held up as a poster child for untrammeled capitalist globalisation, the Irish Republic has more recently come to represent a cautionary tale f...

This book makes an important contribution to the existing literature on European social democracy in the wake of the 2008 financial crash and ensui...