Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

Crisis is everywhere: in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the Congo; in housing markets, money markets, financial systems, state budgets, and sovereig...

Supported by ten years of research, Wigmore has gathered extensive data covering the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recovery to provide the f...

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, ...