Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

The Theft of a Decade is a contrarian, revelatory analysis of how one generation pulled the rug out from under another, and the myriad consequences...

Since the mid-20th century, organizational theorists have increasingly distanced themselves from the study of core societal power centers and impor...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic at the interlocking levels of politics, economy, and society have been different across regions, states, and ...

The world is presently buffeted by many challenges, some of which manifest in new forms, such as Fintech and cryptocurrencies, while some challenge...

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology Volume 38A features a symposium on public finance in the history of economic thought co...

An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over todays world from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling...

This book examines the character and consequences of Egypt's economic reform and structural adjustment programme of 1991, along with the second sta...

Organised civil society in Greece is generally regarded as weak with rankings for associational density, volunteerism and levels of social capital ...

This title was first published in 2003. The events of 11 September 2001 defy modern economic theory when addressed in aviation terms. Economic theo...

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

Since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, the EU has been in almost permanent crisis mode. It is witnessing new dimensions of interna...

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

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 ...

This book analyses the financing problems of Greek small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), within a liberalized financial system and within an e...

Throughout the history of economic thought, interest in business cycles and economic crises has sometimes been observed to rise during times of cri...

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

Virtually all large banks and other financial institutions in the UK and internationally are public limited liability companies whose shares are li...

Examining the news coverage of the economic crisis in Greece, this book develops a framework for identifying discourses of legitimation of actors, ...

This book examines the character and consequences of Egypt's economic reform and structural adjustment programme of 1991, along with the second sta...

Following the outbreak of the international financial crisis, Southern Europe became an epicentre of economic instability and international concern...

This title was first published in 2000: Since 1998, there have been many diagnoses, studies and theories attempting to explain the East Asian econo...

Conventional wisdom says that Europes crisis is a financial crisis. But is this really the case? In Industrial Poverty, economist Sven R. Larson, c...

The 1997 Asian Crisis and 9/11 were turning points for the world economy. The two events reminded the Western World of the dynamic impacts of globa...

The Role of Blockchain in Disaster Management explores the architecture and implementation of existing blockchain-based IoT frameworks for the dete...

Global tourism has faced unprecedented challenges in previous years: the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental change and disaster, and financial diffic...

The global financial crisis, which began in 2007, was probably the biggest shock to hit the UK economy in living memory. Since the beginning of thi...

Since the financial crisis, there have been numerous reports, articles and books highlighting the gloomy future ahead. Making Sense of Markets make...

Since the mid-20th century, organizational theorists have increasingly distanced themselves from the study of core societal power centers and impor...

This book is a machine-generated literature overview that explores the theoretical and empirical aspects of economics of natural disasters such as ...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offere...

The book is written with a multidisciplinary ethos in mind. Hence, it may be useful for undergraduates studying biology, social biology, epidemiolo...

We live in a world which is complexly interconnected and an ever burgeoning population means that the risks of outbreaks occurring are significant....

An incisive overview of the macroeconomics of financial crisesessential reading for students and policy experts alikeWith alarming frequency, moder...

For nearly three centuries the spectacular rise and fall of the South Sea Company has gripped the public imagination as the most graphic warning to...

In the ruins of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, self-proclaimed progressives the world over clamoured to resurrect the economic theory of John Mayn...

This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic ...

This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic ...