Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

Both quantitative and qualitative analysis is used to review China's stock market in a book containing the latest research on China's IPO market, t...

This collection presents a political sociology of crisis in Europe. Focusing on state and society transformations in the context of the 2008 financ...

Based on the crisis experience, the book offers an overview of lessons for macrofinancial analysis and financial stability. It illustrates the inte...

An indepth look at the origins and development of the current financial crisis, from an economist and Washington insider. Jarsulic explains how a w...

Tillmann C. Lauk discusses law-making at the European level and argues that problems with EU legislation, banking regulation and currency debasemen...

This timely reader of seminal papers published by Palgrave on behalf of Comparative Economic Studies, examines how and why foreign banks enter emer...

Two Crises, Different Outcomes examines East Asian policy reactions to the two major crises of the last fifteen years: the global financial crisis ...

Since the mid-20th century, organizational theorists have increasingly distanced themselves from the study of core societal power centers and impor...

In many commodity-based economies, rollercoaster boom-and-bust cycles have come to be viewed almost as an unavoidable characteristic. Framed mainly...

This is a darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerit...

The recent financial crisis and Great Recession have been analysed endlessly in the mainstream and academia, but this is the first book to conclude...

This as-it-happened review of the causes, consequences, and repercussions of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis is more than a history lesson it's a...

In The Global Financial Crisis, contributors argue that the complexity of the Global Financial Crisis challenges researchers to offer more comprehe...

The 2008 financial crisis was among the worst in history, yet nevertheless offers invaluable lessons. Recorded as the third largest bankruptcy in h...

The Euro Crisis produced the most significant challenge to European integration in 60 years--testing the structures and powers of the European Unio...

Emerging relatively unscathed from the banking crisis of 2008, China has been viewed as a model of both rampant success and fiscal stability. But b...

One of the most salient features of the 2007-9 global financial crisis was the role played by global banking and multinational banks in transmittin...

Social protection systems are intended to support households in financial difficulties, a role that has been underlined during the recent Great Rec...

The current consensus economic model, the neoclassical synthesis, depends on aprioristic assumptions that are shown to be invalid when tested again...

Financial Crisis, penned by Adrian Buckley, offers a fascinating close-up analysis of the causes of the 2007/8 financial crisis and its consequence...

Since the 2008 economic meltdown, market-driven globalization has posed new challenges for governments. This collection introduces the innovative c...

Myanmar in Crisis brings together scholars from across the social sciences to analyse the dual crises of COVID-19 and the 2021 military coup. All o...

As the financial crisis reached its climax in September 2008, the most important figure on the planet was Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. Th...

Can grassroots social movements impact the financial system? Technological advancements are poised to completely transform the financial system, ...

What do cacao beans, cowrie shells, paper cards, cigarettes and digital databases all have in common? At some time, they have been used as a form o...

Understanding money's nature as political, institutional, and material answers today's big money questions. Money remains a foundational question o...

Worst-case scenarios are all too real, and all too common. The financial crisis of 2008 was not the first or the last to destroy jobs, homeownershi...

A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain. Observer Book of the Day Britain needs a fresh start. This timely book by one o...

In this important and provocative reassessment of the causes and consequences of economic downturns and stagnation, Roger Farmer argues that the ce...

Natural hazards, such as floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, typhoons, and wildfires, present significant challenges for managing risk and vulnerabili...

Central banks play an important role in the course of national economies and the global economy. Their leaders are regularly feted or vilified, the...