Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

This book analyses the logic of applying the American Post-Keynesian economist Hyman Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis (FIH) to the financi...

Barely two decades after the Asian financial crisis Asia was suddenly confronted with multiple challenges originating outside the region: the 2008 ...

Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political di...

The international economic crisis has hit Europe, especially its ‘periphery’, remarkably hard, and has had deep consequences at the economic and po...

Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political di...

The two most topical issues in current financial markets deal with the causes of the recent financial crisis and the means to prevent future crises...

Despite the depth of the Greek crisis, the exorbitant burdens placed upon the working people and the massive popular resistance movement to capital...

In 2008 another economic crisis emerged in the long history of capitalism which created a period of ‘austerity economics’ across many nations. Cult...

The current financial crisis provides a valuable occasion for the world to re-examine the grand statements of wisdom which dominate the financial w...

Incorporating a broad range of economic approaches, Understanding Financial Crises explores the merits of various arguments and theories which have...

In 2006 residential real estate prices peaked and started to fall, then threatened the world's financial institutions in 2007, and confronted the g...

In Unchecked and Unbalanced, Arnold Kling provides a blueprint for those who are skeptical of political and financial elitism. At the heart of Klin...

An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today’s world – from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselli...

An incisive overview of the macroeconomics of financial crises—essential reading for students and policy experts alikeWith alarming frequency, mode...

This title examines the resilience of Islamic banking during the global financial crisis and the subsequent recession. Do Islamic financial institu...

The 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising crisis with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Haun...

Ever since introducing the concept in the late 1980s, historians have been debating the origins, nature, scope, and limitations of the New Deal ord...

The early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government. But the Golden State's governance flaws reflect worrisome ...

This book presents the findings of new empirical research regarding shifts in public discourses and attitudes in Greek society as a result of the c...

The ongoing economic crisis has revealed fundamental problems both in our economic system and the discipline which analyses it. This book presents ...

The financial and economic crisis in Europe is not over, and the radically opposing strategies on how to proceed has only increased the complexity ...