Financial crises & disasters books

Many accounts of the financial crisis focus on renegade activity in marginal financial sectors. This book argues...  Read More >>

The book follows a first edition published in 1989, which focused on the severe economic crisis Ghana faced during...  Read More >>

How do market participants construct stable markets? Social Finance: Shadow Banking during the Global Financial...  Read More >>

This guidance note underscores the importance of scaling up resilience-building measures through community-driven...  Read More >>

This book primarily focuses on the dynamic relationship between the financial and the economic systems of twelve...  Read More >>

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Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the story of a Texas man who, in 1931, set out to walk backwards...  Read More >>

Have you ever puzzled over the causes of the 2007–8 financial crisis and wondered how it will affect all our futures?...  Read More >>

A history of the effort to fight financial crises, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.  Read More >>

In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public...  Read More >>

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by...  Read More >>

This book is the fifteenth volume in the renowned International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series which...  Read More >>

Grey Zones in International Economic Law and Global Governance examines contested zones of global governance to...  Read More >>

This edited volume showcases how the European cooperative banks have continued to evolve amid a new competitive...  Read More >>

This book presents the results of extensive international comparative research into the effects of the economic...  Read More >>

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The first chapter of this book begins by explaining prior international tax rules and the revisions made in the...  Read More >>

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To unravel the peculiar nature of the political economy in Korea, the authors first identify major factors that...  Read More >>

Steven Serels charts the erosion of this moral economy, a slow-moving process that began during the Little Ice Age...  Read More >>

The former Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus tells the story of the Euro crisis in Cyprus from the inside and...  Read More >>

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the on-going Greek debt crisis. It identifies and explains Greece’s idiosyncratic...  Read More >>

All Fall Down traces the ways in which changes in financial structure and regulation eroded monetary control and...  Read More >>

The recent global recession, preceded by easy access to credit, led to a household debt epidemic. Household Debt...  Read More >>

Nous vivons dans un monde ou les soubresauts de l'economie font les gros titres: de l'assouplissement des reglementations...  Read More >>