Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

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...