Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

Janet Tavakoli takes you into the world of Warren Buffett by way of the recent mortgage meltdown. In correspondence and discussion with him over 2 ...

The new, fully-updated edition of the respected guide to understanding financial extremes, evaluating investment opportunities, and identifying fut...

Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn't fall. But the spectacular boom and bust of the housing market during the first decade of the ...

Along with its painful economic costs, the financial crisis of 2008 raised concerns over the future of international policy making. As in recession...

The crisis of global capitalism that has unfolded since 2008 is more than an economic crisis. It is structural and multidimensional. The sequence o...

The euro was generally considered a success in its first decade. Nevertheless, the unanticipated financial crisis in the summer of 2007 has develop...

'Robert Peston's compelling account of global financial meltdown is a must-read.' ObserverWhat can we learn from the 2008 recession? ITV's politica...

The Great Financial Crisis of 2008 that is still haunting western democracies has not been a mere bump in the road of economic growth. It has inaug...

In August of 2007, the debt-fuelled bubble that had created an illusion of prosperity across the western world burst, leading to an international f...

In recent years, a financial crisis not encountered for almost half a century broke out globally, deeply affecting the economy of China. This book ...

In August 2007, asset-backed securities (ABS), particularly those backed by subprime mortgages, suddenly became illiquid and fell sharply in value ...

Between January 2008 and December 2011, a period of economic downturn in the United States, 414 insured U.S. banks failed. Of these, 85 percent or ...

Written for undergraduate and graduate students of finance, economics and business, the fourth edition of Financial Markets and Institutions provid...

This innovative analysis investigates a complex issue of tremendous economic and political importance: what makes some countries vulnerable to bank...

Once held up as a poster child for untrammeled capitalist globalisation, the Irish Republic has more recently come to represent a cautionary tale f...

This book makes an important contribution to the existing literature on European social democracy in the wake of the 2008 financial crash and ensui...

If youve got some money in the bank, chances are youve never seriously worried about not being able to withdraw it. But there was a time in the Uni...

Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restauran...

This volume brings together the proceedings of the conference From past experience to new approaches and synergies: The future of protection manage...

Few countries experienced the period of turbulence surrounding the global financial crisis as intensely as Greece. The country topped the global ne...

The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the catacl...

Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading ...

The days of boom and bubble are over, and the time has come to understand the long-term economic reality. Although the Great Recession officially e...

In this sweeping, incisive post mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mor...

The Cold War was fought between state socialism and the free market. That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money co...

Combatting financial stability risks is a highly challenging task which can by no means be concentrated into a one-size fits all approach. It is im...

History has shown us the role that financial and banking crises have had in economic transformation. The last crisis in 2008 was particularly signi...

Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range ...

The first chapter of this book begins by explaining prior international tax rules and the revisions made in the new law. The second part of the rep...

The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economyThe American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes th...

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

The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economyThe American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes th...

New Testament expert Ben Witherington III explores what the Bible does - and doesn't - say about money. He clearly and concisely examines what Je...

If you like your smartphone or your widescreen TV, your car or your pension, then, whether you know it or not, you are a fan of Wall Street.William...

Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (1919-96). Although a handful of economists raised ala...

The collapse of the international banking & fiat currency system is inevitable. This aide memoire is to give the interested layman an insight i...

The world appears to be beginning to recover from the global recession that is causing widespread business contraction, increases in unemployment, ...

In this second volume of the Interpreting American History series, experts on the 1930s address the changing historical interpretations of a critic...