Financial crises & disasters books

2361 books were found.

Strengthening Resilience through Social Protection Programs: Guidance Note

Strengthening Resilience through Social Protection Programs:...

Author: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9789292611040
Format: Paperback
$45.28

Social protection programs can provide enhanced opportunities to strengthen climate and disaster resilience of the...  Read More >>

Democracy and Financial Order: Legal Perspectives

Democracy and Financial Order: Legal Perspectives

Author: Matthias Goldmann ,  Silvia Steininger
ISBN: 9783662555675
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book discusses the relationship between democracy and the financial order from various legal perspectives....  Read More >>

Central and Eastern Europe in the EU: Challenges and Perspectives Under Crisis Conditions

Central and Eastern Europe in the EU: Challenges and...

Author: Christian Schweiger (Visiting Professor, Chair for Comparative European Governance Systems, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany) ,  Anna Visvizi
ISBN: 9781138714021
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, the EU has been in almost permanent crisis mode. It is witnessing...  Read More >>

Social Policy After the Financial Crisis: A Progressive Response

Social Policy After the Financial Crisis: A Progressive...

Author: Ian Greener
ISBN: 9781786436108
Format: Hardback
$239.50

Incorporating insights from political economy and behavioural psychology, this radical book provides an up-to-date...  Read More >>

Old-Age Provision and Homeownership – Fiscal Incentives and Other Public Policy Options

Old-Age Provision and Homeownership – Fiscal Incentives...

Author: Martina Eckardt ,  Jörg Dötsch
ISBN: 9783319752105
Format: Hardback
$422.37

In light of demographic change and the growing problems of traditional old-age security systems, this book discusses...  Read More >>

American Default: The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold

American Default: The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme...

Author: Sebastian Edwards
ISBN: 9780691161884
Format: Hardback
$54.99

The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economy.  Read More >>

Beyond the Bailouts: The Anthropology and History of the Greek Crisis

Beyond the Bailouts: The Anthropology and History of...

Author: Clarissa de Waal (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781788312592
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Essential perspectives for understanding Greece’s recent and historical financial crises  Read More >>

Professional Authority After the Global Financial Crisis: Defending Mammon in Anglo-America

Professional Authority After the Global Financial Crisis:...

Author: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn
ISBN: 9783319849836
Format: Paperback
$237.57

This book challenges amoral views of finance as the leading realm in which mammon – wealth and profit – is pursued...  Read More >>

Inequality and Finance in Macrodynamics

Inequality and Finance in Macrodynamics

Author: Bettina Bökemeier ,  Alfred Greiner
ISBN: 9783319854564
Format: Paperback
$422.37

This contributed volume combines approaches of the current inequality debate with aspects of finance based on profound...  Read More >>

The Nigerian Cocoa Industry and the International Economy in the 1930s: A World-Systems Approach

The Nigerian Cocoa Industry and the International Economy...

Author: Olisa Muojama
ISBN: 9781527510944
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Periodic cycles and waves are characteristics of global capitalism. The contraction in world trade during the Great...  Read More >>

A History of the United States in Five Crashes

A History of the United States in Five Crashes

Author: Scott Nations
ISBN: 9780062467287
Format: Paperback
$50.13

In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history, Scott Nations, a longtime trader,...  Read More >>

Anti-Money Laundering: A Practical Guide to Reducing Organizational Risk

Anti-Money Laundering: A Practical Guide to Reducing...

Author: Rose Chapman
ISBN: 9780749481896
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Get an accessible, practical and jargon-free introduction to anti-money laundering, including issues and best practices...  Read More >>

Corporate Governance in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, Volume III: Gatekeeper Functions

Corporate Governance in the Aftermath of the Global...

Author: Zabihollah Rezaee
ISBN: 9781947843721
Format: Paperback
$54.95

Corporate governance has evolved as a central issue for public companies in the aftermath of the 2007-2009 global...  Read More >>

Corporate Governance in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, Volume IV: Emerging Issues in Corporate Governance

Corporate Governance in the Aftermath of the Global...

Author: Zabihollah Rezaee
ISBN: 9781947843745
Format: Paperback
$54.95

Corporate governance has evolved as a central issue for public companies in the aftermath of the 2007-2009 global...  Read More >>

Austrian Reconstruction and the Collapse of Global Finance, 1921–1931

Austrian Reconstruction and the Collapse of Global Finance,...

Author: Nathan Marcus
ISBN: 9780674088924
Format: Hardback
$101.95

Although some statesmen and historians have pinned Austria’s—and the world’s—interwar economic implosion on financial...  Read More >>

Iceland's Financial Crisis: The Politics of Blame, Protest, and Reconstruction

Iceland's Financial Crisis: The Politics of Blame, Protest,...

Author: Valur Ingimundarson (University of Iceland, Iceland.) ,  Philippe Urfalino
ISBN: 9781138598423
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Being the first casualty of the international financial crisis, Iceland was, in many ways, turned into a laboratory...  Read More >>

Jürgen Habermas and the European Economic Crisis: Cosmopolitanism Reconsidered

Jürgen Habermas and the European Economic Crisis: Cosmopolitanism...

Author: Gaspare M. Genna (University of Texas at El Paso, USA) ,  Thomas O. Haakenson
ISBN: 9781138543485
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The European Union entered into an economic crisis in late 2009 that was sparked by bank bailouts and led to large,...  Read More >>

When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence

When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence...

Author: Stephen D. King
ISBN: 9780300236934
Format: Paperback
$24.95

"""First published in paperback in 2014""--Title page verso."  Read More >>

Media Amnesia: Rewriting the Economic Crisis

Media Amnesia: Rewriting the Economic Crisis

Author: Laura Basu
ISBN: 9780745337890
Format: Paperback
$72.42

How the media has been complicit in sustaining free market capitalism.  Read More >>

Media Amnesia: Rewriting the Economic Crisis

Media Amnesia: Rewriting the Economic Crisis

Author: Laura Basu
ISBN: 9780745337906
Format: Hardback
$303.60

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Crisis Governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia: The Study of Floods in 2014

Crisis Governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia...

Author: Vedran Džihić ,  Magdalena Solska
ISBN: 9783034327473
Format: Paperback
$190.57

The volume deals with different aspects of the crisis governance during the floods in 2014 in Bosnia and Herzegovina,...  Read More >>

Crash and Beyond: Causes and Consequences of the Global Financial Crisis

Crash and Beyond: Causes and Consequences of the Global...

Author: Andrew Farlow (Research Fellow in Economics, Oriel College, University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9780198822783
Format: Paperback
$63.95

Written by an author who had identified many of these issues in advance of the financial crash, this is an accessible,...  Read More >>

The 1772–73 British Credit Crisis

The 1772–73 British Credit Crisis

Author: Paul Kosmetatos
ISBN: 9783319709079
Format: Hardback
$369.57

Nowadays remembered mostly through Adam Smith’s references to the short-lived Ayr Bank in the Wealth of Nations,...  Read More >>

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