Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

'Cristina Alger's debut novel offers a fresh and modern glimpse into New York's high society. I was hooked from page one' Lauren Weisberger, autho...

The financial crisis of 2008 aroused widespread interest in banking and financial history among policy makers, academics, journalists, and even ban...

The global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision-making in the grey zone between economics and politics. Legitimized by...

Risk management solutions for today's high-speed investing environment Real-Time Risk is the first book to show regular, institutional, and quantit...

The passage of the National Currency Act of 1863 gave the United States its first uniform paper money, its first nationally chartered and supervise...

The global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision-making in the grey zone between economics and politics. Legitimized by...

In Third Wave Capitalism, John Ehrenreich documents the emergence of a new stage in the history of American capitalism. Just as the industrial capi...

We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment;...

Reality-based modeling for today's unique economic recovery Economic Modeling in the Post Great Recession Era presents a more realistic approach to...

John Taylor is one of the foremost economists of our generation. His ideas were implemented in central banks across the world during the period of ...

We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment;...

A growing complacency that stability has been restored in the wake of recent economic turmoil is not just wishful thinking, it is dangerous thinkin...

What effects will the current economic crisis have on the long-term development of our societies? What does the future hold in store when we emerge...

What effects will the current economic crisis have on the long-term development of our societies? What does the future hold in store when we emerge...

The difficult economic climate in Europe and the US is set to continue for many years, despite desperate efforts to stimulate growth. The long phas...

Simon Carswell's Anglo Republic: the definitive history of the bank that brought Ireland to ruinAs late as 2007, Anglo Irish Bank was a darling of ...

This study explores the major patterns of change in the evolution of financial crises as enduring phenomena and analyzes the paradoxical position t...

Why the global recession is in danger of becoming another Great Depression, and how we can stop it When the United States stopped backing dollars...

There is still no consensus on who or what caused the financial crisis which engulfed the world, beginning in the summer of 2007. A huge number of ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2010They were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions. They t...

How top traders made huge profits during the most momentous market events of the past century Financial and commodity markets are characterized by ...

The world's best financial minds help us understand today's financial crisis With so much information saturating the market for the everyday invest...

The mortgage meltdown: what went wrong and how do we fix it? Owning a home can bestow a sense of security and independence. But today, in a cruel t...

An updated and revised look at the truth behind America's housing and mortgage bubbles In the summer of 2007, the subprime empire that Wall Street ...

The rules of making money have changed-forever With the collapse of investment banks, trillion-dollar-plus government bailouts, and the Dow plungin...

The subprime mortgage crisis has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people and now it threatens to derail the U.S. economy and econo...

'A compelling portrait of early 21st-century casino capitalism ... essential reading.' - The Times On 13 September 2007, Robert Peston broke the ne...

The financial crisis has led to a far-reaching redesign of the European regulatory and supervisory framework. Following the commitments made in the...

This book analyzes the performance of the economy and the economic policy actions of the Federal Reserve, the president, and the Congress in the tw...

This volume examines the vulnerability of sound banks during financial crises helps understand the nature of financial crises and other ba...

Alan S. Blinder-esteemed Princeton professor, Wall Street Journal columnist, and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under Alan Green...

Originally published in 2010, this book covers the development of the mortgage market, the residential housing boom and bust that led to the subpri...

Managing Risk and Decision Making in Times of Economic Distress: Part B adds much needed scholarly analysis of the fledgling decision/control appro...

Originally published in 2011, this volume examines the Enron-era scandals and several corporate governance issues that were raised as a result of t...