Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restauran...

This volume brings together the proceedings of the conference From past experience to new approaches and synergies: The future of protection manage...

Few countries experienced the period of turbulence surrounding the global financial crisis as intensely as Greece. The country topped the global ne...

The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the catacl...

Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading ...

The days of boom and bubble are over, and the time has come to understand the long-term economic reality. Although the Great Recession officially e...

In this sweeping, incisive post mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mor...

The Cold War was fought between state socialism and the free market. That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money co...

Combatting financial stability risks is a highly challenging task which can by no means be concentrated into a one-size fits all approach. It is im...

History has shown us the role that financial and banking crises have had in economic transformation. The last crisis in 2008 was particularly signi...

Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range ...

The first chapter of this book begins by explaining prior international tax rules and the revisions made in the new law. The second part of the rep...

The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economyThe American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes th...

The unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis in Ireland is having profound impacts on Generation Rent, the wellbeing of children, worsening wi...

The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economyThe American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes th...

New Testament expert Ben Witherington III explores what the Bible does - and doesn't - say about money. He clearly and concisely examines what Je...

If you like your smartphone or your widescreen TV, your car or your pension, then, whether you know it or not, you are a fan of Wall Street.William...

Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (1919-96). Although a handful of economists raised ala...

The collapse of the international banking & fiat currency system is inevitable. This aide memoire is to give the interested layman an insight i...

The world appears to be beginning to recover from the global recession that is causing widespread business contraction, increases in unemployment, ...

In this second volume of the Interpreting American History series, experts on the 1930s address the changing historical interpretations of a critic...

Do democratic governments and authoritarian regimes respond to banking crises in the same way? Banking crises threaten the stability and growth of ...