Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

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...

Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crudethe worlds largest reservesan oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortu...

The United States has endured eleven recessions since the end of World War II, including the recession of 2007-2009. This book focuses on the perfo...

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 is motivated by the simple hope that the cloud of the global financial crisis may yet have a silver liningthat political leaders, economi...

In this innovative and exhaustive study, Steven A. Ramirez posits that the subprime mortgage crisis, as well as the global macroeconomic catastroph...

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 ...

A Great Deal of Ruin provides an accessible introduction to the enduring problem of financial crises. Illustrated with historical analysis, case st...

This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early ...

This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early ...

When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring.________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BE...

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

The latest book by journalist and author Paul Blustein to go behind the scenes at the highest levels of global economic policy making, Laid Low chr...

A number of changes have been made to the supervision and regulation of banks as a result of the recent financial meltdown. Some are for the better...

'We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the many and prepare the ground for reversing the absurdities of capitalism.' Yanis ...

This book explains what is behind the wave of increasingly frequent and severe financial crises since the 1980s. It links theoretical and policy mi...

Global crises not only deeply impact the economy and people's livelihoods, they also unsettle basic ideas and assumptions about the meaning and dri...

With a second recession looming, Britain is facing a moment of truth. This book examines how the leader of the industrial revolution came to exhibi...

The latest research on measuring, managing and pricing financial risk. Three broad perspectives are considered: financial risk in non-financial cor...

Written by a group of international experts, this book focuses on three interdependent themes: (a) origins and consequences of the current debt cri...

Why do banks collapse? Are financial systems more fragile in recent decades? Can policies to fix the banking system do more harm than good? What's ...

This book features contributions from leading researchers into the effect of the recent financial crisis on lending in the banking sector. They exp...

The recent financial crisis has generated many structural changes within the economy. Many issues are ongoing, and the question of how to recover f...

Puerto Rico is experiencing its deepest economic crisis since the first half of the twentieth century. The unique political and economic relationsh...

A study of the first great global stock market crash and and its impact on the peripheries of the British state In late September 1720 the South S...

This collection explores the current economic and political crisis in Greece and more widely in Europe. Greece is used to illustrate and exemplify ...

Friedman and McNeill draw on recent research in evolutionary game theory and behavioral economics to explore the relationship between our moral cod...

During the ongoing global financial crisis, a lack of moral and ethical leadership in society has been exposed. The Most Reverend Rowan Williams, A...

Analysis of the current financial/economic crisis from the Director of the Banking Sector at the FSA (Financial Services Authority). New edition up...

This revised edition offers the most up-to-date advice for investors who wish to defend themselves, or even make a profit from, the blighted polici...

The latest scholarly developments in research on banking, financial markets, and the recent financial crisis. This selection of papers were present...

Euro Crash is a unique analysis of the European Monetary Union, arguing that it was not sub-optimal currency areas or profligate government spendin...

Understanding the formation of bubbles and the contagion mechanisms afflicting financial markets is a must as extreme volatility events leave no ma...