Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

In July 2007, the then chief executive of Citigroup, Charles Prince, captured the hubris of a market dangerously addicted to debt: “When the music ...

In this title, a well-known academic economist and former finance minister gives a lucid and well balanced overview of the current financial turbul...

In his exceedingly timely and innovative look at the ramifications of the collapse of the U.S. housing market, Herman M. Schwartz makes the case th...

The book explores how, to what extent and with what consequences the international crisis of 2007-2008 and the recession which followed have affect...

This is a comprehensive biography of Clarence Charles Hatry, 1888-1965, an enigmatic and charismatic public figure. Hatry was the son of Jewish imm...

Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of 'ordinary' structural violence, it appears today as a global ...

This comprehensive volume explores debt dynamics and the intensification of debt crises across the globe, bringing together several recent but unde...

In recent years the countries of southern Europe have undergone, with varying intensity, a serious and prolonged economic crisis. Most have had to ...

Starting with Medici and Fugger and ending with Barings and Royal Bank of Scotland under neo-liberal de-regulation, the author gives an account of ...

Drawing together multidisciplinary research exploring everyday life in Europe during times of economic crisis, this book explores the ways in which...

This volume uses state of the art models from the frontier of macroeconomics to answer key questions about how the economy functions and how policy...

This book deals with the genesis and dynamics of exchange rate crises in fixed or managed exchange rate systems. It provides a comprehensive treatm...

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In 2007-2008 the world was plunged into a financial and economic crash. This book explores the multiple entwined roots of the crash, including the ...

The 1997 Asian Crisis principally affected Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Korea, as well as other East Asian countries heavily dependent on int...

Offering an analytical perspective on the design and reform of the international financial architecture, this book stresses the important role play...

Once Britain's pensions system was admired around the world. Now it is in tatters, and vast numbers of us face the grim choice of enduring a povert...

Robust financial markets support capitalism, they don't imperil it. But in 2008, Washington policymakers were compelled to replace private risk-tak...

Why did some firms weather the financial crisis and others not? This book builds on the author's interviews and access to internal documents from o...

Almost every country in the world has sophisticated systems to prevent banking crises. Yet such crises--and the massive financial and social damage...

The Great Financial Crisis that began in 2007-2008 reminds us with devastating force that financial instability and crises are endemic to capitalis...

Risk and Hyperconnectivity brings together for the first time three paradigms: new risk theory, neoliberalization theory, and connectivity theory, ...

In recent years, the world has been rocked by major economic crises, most notably the devastating collapse of Lehman Brothers, the largest bankrupt...

Financial crises often transmit across geographical borders and different asset classes. Modelling these interactions is empirically challenging, a...

Economists enjoy enormous influence over the life chances of the world's inhabitants, yet do not receive, at any point in their training, any expos...

Risk and Hyperconnectivity brings together for the first time three paradigms: new risk theory, neoliberalization theory, and connectivity theory, ...

Originally written for a conference of the Federal Reserve, Gary Gorton's "The Panic of 2007" garnered enormous attention and is considered by many...

Systemic Risk opens new ground in the study of financial crises. It treats the financial system as a complex adaptive system and shows how lessons ...

This book explores the IMF's role within the politics of austerity by providing a path-breaking comprehensive analysis of how the IMF approach to f...

Developments in theories of financial markets and institutions, using the tools of the economics of uncertainty and of contracts, as well as result...

Welfare and the Great Recession surveys and analyses welfare consequences in the period following the financial crisis in Europe. It investigates h...

Why are there so many crises in the world? Is it true that the global system is today riskier and more dangerous than in past decades? Do we have a...

Winner of the 2021 European Society of Modern Greek Studies Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Runciman Award The recent economic crisis in Gree...

Just as we need good food for good health, so too do we need `good finance’ for social and economic wellness. In this book, Vedat Akgiray present...

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...

UK austerity policies include anti-regulatory pressures to ‘free up’ private capital to produce wealth, employment and tax revenues. This topical b...

The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurre...

Understanding the Great Depression has never been more relevant than in today's economic crisis. This edited collection provides an authoritative i...

This book revisits John Kenneth Galbraith's classic text The Affluent Society in the context of the background to, and causes of, the global econom...