Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

Virtually all large banks and other financial institutions in the UK and internationally are public limited liability companies whose shares are li...

Examining the news coverage of the economic crisis in Greece, this book develops a framework for identifying discourses of legitimation of actors, ...

This book examines the character and consequences of Egypt's economic reform and structural adjustment programme of 1991, along with the second sta...

Following the outbreak of the international financial crisis, Southern Europe became an epicentre of economic instability and international concern...

This title was first published in 2000: Since 1998, there have been many diagnoses, studies and theories attempting to explain the East Asian econo...

Conventional wisdom says that Europes crisis is a financial crisis. But is this really the case? In Industrial Poverty, economist Sven R. Larson, c...

The 1997 Asian Crisis and 9/11 were turning points for the world economy. The two events reminded the Western World of the dynamic impacts of globa...

The Role of Blockchain in Disaster Management explores the architecture and implementation of existing blockchain-based IoT frameworks for the dete...

Global tourism has faced unprecedented challenges in previous years: the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental change and disaster, and financial diffic...

The global financial crisis, which began in 2007, was probably the biggest shock to hit the UK economy in living memory. Since the beginning of thi...

Since the financial crisis, there have been numerous reports, articles and books highlighting the gloomy future ahead. Making Sense of Markets make...

Since the mid-20th century, organizational theorists have increasingly distanced themselves from the study of core societal power centers and impor...

This book is a machine-generated literature overview that explores the theoretical and empirical aspects of economics of natural disasters such as ...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offere...

The book is written with a multidisciplinary ethos in mind. Hence, it may be useful for undergraduates studying biology, social biology, epidemiolo...

We live in a world which is complexly interconnected and an ever burgeoning population means that the risks of outbreaks occurring are significant....

An incisive overview of the macroeconomics of financial crisesessential reading for students and policy experts alikeWith alarming frequency, moder...

For nearly three centuries the spectacular rise and fall of the South Sea Company has gripped the public imagination as the most graphic warning to...

In the ruins of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, self-proclaimed progressives the world over clamoured to resurrect the economic theory of John Mayn...

This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic ...

This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic ...