Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

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 ...

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

Born in Massachusetts, Jared Bibler relocated to Iceland in 2004 only to find himself in the middle of an unprecedented financial crisis a handful ...

War in Ukraine, a global hunger crisis, the West's cost of living crisis - the eruptions of 2022 were all too predictable. In Price Wars, Rupert Ru...

Generation Z has grown up with a global financial crisis, a pandemic, the climate emergency, growing autocracy and wars. Survival, not just equity,...

Generation Z has grown up with a global financial crisis, a pandemic, the climate emergency, growing autocracy and wars. Survival, not just equity,...

Since 2008, Greece has been at the centre of European current affairs due to the financial and economic crisis. However, it should not be forgotten...

This book investigates the presence of Chinese and Indian companies in Europe and the impact that the current global financial crisis has had on th...

Today's top financial professionals have come to rely on ever-more sophisticated mathematics in their attempts to come to grips with financial risk...

The global economy may well take much longer to recover fully from the shock caused by the coronavirus crisis than many initially expected - and h...

In this myth-busting book Nouriel Roubini shows that everything we think about economics is wrong. Financial crises are not unpredictable 'black sw...

In 1979, Margaret Thatchers new government was faced with rampant double-digit inflation, rising unemployment and flatlining economic growth. In re...

Is globalization a recipe for war? In the nineteenth century, liberals exulted that the spread of commerce would usher in prosperity and peace, but...

The aim of this edited collection is to bridge the gap between advanced research methods and models and the main fields of economic research by pre...

If youve got money in the bank, chances are youve never seriously worried about not being able to withdraw it. But there was a time in the United S...

The 2008 financial crisis--like the Great Depression--was a world-historical event. What caused it will be debated for years, if not generations. T...

Die von der Weltgesundheitsorganisation als COVID-19 bezeichnete Atemwegserkrankung entwickelte sich zu einer globalen Pandemie. Fast alle Länder u...

*INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Extraordinary The ObserverA stupefyingly pleasurable book to read New YorkerLewis...

China's economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating serious trade disadvantages. Another Great Depr...

'The most explosive, mind-blowing business book I've ever read' Bradley Hope, New York Times bestselling author of Billion Dollar Whale'Jaw-droppi...

Behind every financial crisis lurks a political bubble--policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than ti...

Using extensive documentary evidence and interviews with former Lehman employees, Oonagh McDonald reveals the decisions that led to Lehmans collaps...

The subprime mortgage crisis has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people and now it threatens to derail the U.S. economy and econo...

The first three volumes of the series, available for purchase as a set now! The Possible Futures Series gathers together leading social scientists...

This book focuses on the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and its implications for democracy. Why and how did the crisis come about? Are there ...

Dollar, Euro's and Debt discusses the recent financial, economic, and fiscal crisis. It argues that the focus that has been put on cyclical aspects...

This book sheds light on the impact of the Great Recession from the perspective of both developing and developed countries. It traces the complex a...

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...

The book that inspired the movie Collapse. The world is running short of energy-especially cheap, easy-to-find oil. Shortages, along with resultin...

Through analysing banking systems, this book develops a unique conceptual framework for exploring paradigmatic differences and evolutionary paths a...

This volume investigates the policies and politics of extreme austerity, setting the crisis in Greece in its global context. Featuring multidiscipl...

Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? I...

Joseph Stiglitz examines the theory behind the economic downturns that have plagued our world in recent times. This fascinating three-part lecture ...

Latin America was one of the regions least affected by the global financial crisis of 2008. During this time of widespread economic downfall, Latin...

Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the c...

An understanding of personal debt requires an understanding of the complex social systems that produce poverty. By drawing upon international persp...

In this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller, who warned of both t...