Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

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...

How does a city survive its worst recession in living memory? Cork entered the 1980s with swagger. The 1970s had been dominated nationally by the ...

From the author of the modern business classic The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a damning indictment of late-stage capitalism-and the leaders th...

The unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis in Ireland is having profound impacts on Generation Rent, the wellbeing of children, worsening wi...