Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

This book, based on an empirical form of narration, outlines a short-medium term analysis of the social impact of austerity politics on urban life....

Between 1760 and 1860, the English countryside was subject to constant attempts at agricultural improvement. Most often these meant depriving cotta...

Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty examines the beginning of Canadas aerial war against forest insects and how a tiny handful of officials came t...

A collapsing pound, spiralling oil prices, near-rationing of electricity over the past half-century, Britains economy has lurched from one crisis t...

The European public debt problem was in the making long before the 2007-2009 recession, as budget deficits had become endemic. A similar crisis is ...

The European public debt problem was in the making long before the 2007-2009 recession, as budget deficits had become endemic. A similar crisis is ...

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller Pulitzer Prize­­­winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson and financial poli...

The notion that every person living amidst the relative affluence of the rich world has a right to a minimum income enabling social participation, ...

As the shock of the 2008 European financial crisis begins to subside, it is time for scholars to step back and analyze the crisis's causes and effe...

Assesses to what extent increased international cooperation could help selected financial centres in Europe respond to the future risks and opportu...

This volume brings together historians, economists, political scientists, and anthropologists to present a global perspective on the new forms of l...

An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over todays world from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling...

Financial Crises and the Limits of Bank Reform examines the responses that were implemented in France and Germany, two comparable European economie...

The inside story of what really happened at Lehman Brothers and why it failed In The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Game...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TELEGRAPH AND THE NEW STATESMANA marvellous book Rev ...

As featured on CNNs Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4s Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial Times best books of 2021...

Protect your investments with a deep dive into the past and future of finance Building on the uncannily accurate predictions in previous editions, ...

Financial incentives have long been used to try to influence professional values and practices. Recent events including the global financial crisis...

Radical thinkers might have a point - Financial Times The Greatest Crash argues that the financial system which evolved from the early Italian bank...

Canadas social, economic, political, and environmental impacts on the Western Hemisphere have been largely overlooked by historians and other socia...

The USA is widely seen as the country at the centre of the recent economic crash. But will this be the case the next time the system goes into shoc...

Is it the central purpose of American antitrust policy to encourage decentralization of economic power? Or is it to promote consumer welfare? Is th...

Against the backdrop of a more differentiated European Union, this book discusses the relationship between differentiation and domination in the EU...

This book reflects on the innovations that central banks have introduced since the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers to improve their modes of inter...

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, economists around the world have advanced theories to explain the persistence of high unemployment a...

Against the backdrop of a more differentiated European Union, this book discusses the relationship between differentiation and domination in the EU...

This book explores the IMF's engagement in Europe in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. It explains the nature and consequences of ...

The book explores the effect of modern technological shifts on human society, showing that technologies are undergoing accelerating qualitative cha...

This book analyses the social and economic problems that are outstanding in Dongguan due to financial crisis, containing relevant proposals for the...

*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2013* From the pens of major figures of the anti-austerity movement, comes the first radical, collect...

This book provides a sweeping, up-to-date, and boldly critical account of the financial crises that rocked East Asia and other parts of the world b...

In his brilliant interdisciplinary analysis of the global financial crisis, Joseph Vogl aims to demystify finance capitalismwith its bewildering ar...

Pulitzer Prizewinning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson and policy analyst Joshua Rosner investigate the insid...

The 2008 financial crisis all but brought down the financial system and real economies of industrial countries. The Banking Union took a broad appr...

With the specter of prosecution after his term is over and the possibility of disbarment in Arkansas hanging over President Clinton, the Clinton-Le...

The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding. On a human level, what does su...