Financial crises & disasters books

2361 books were found.

Invisible Hands, Russian Experience, and Social Science: Approaches to Understanding Systemic Failure

Invisible Hands, Russian Experience, and Social Science:...

Author: Stefan Hedlund (Professor, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781139003612
Format: Undefined
$435.60

This book approaches the causes of systemic failures ranging from promoting Third World development to implementing...  Read More >>

The Risk Controllers: Central Counterparty Clearing in Globalised Financial Markets

The Risk Controllers: Central Counterparty Clearing...

Author: Peter Norman
ISBN: 9780470686324
Format: Hardback
$103.95

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Crises and Opportunities: The Shaping of Modern Finance

Crises and Opportunities: The Shaping of Modern Finance...

Author: Youssef Cassis (Professor of Economic History, European University Institute, Florence)
ISBN: 9780199600861
Format: Hardback
$141.95

This book examines the differences and commonalities of eight global financial crises since the late nineteenth...  Read More >>

Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst

Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They...

Author: Vikram Mansharamani
ISBN: 9780470879467
Format: Hardback
$79.07

A multi-disciplinary framework through which to spot financial bubbles before they burst. Based on a popular...  Read More >>

Who Cares?

Who Cares?

Author: Richard Walker
ISBN: 9780956820808
Format: Paperback
$17.98

Environmental disaster, war poverty and debt are worldwide problems. The author presents a well researched case...  Read More >>

Reluctant Regulators - How the West Created and How China Survived the Global Financial Crisis

Reluctant Regulators - How the West Created and How...

Author: Leo Goodstadt
ISBN: 9789888083251
Format: Hardback
$105.60

This book is a scathing indictment of regulatory inertia in the West. It provides important and original insights...  Read More >>

The Bonds of Debt: Borrowing Against the Common Good

The Bonds of Debt: Borrowing Against the Common Good...

Author: Richard Dienst
ISBN: 9781844676910
Format: Hardback
$29.99

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The First Great Recession of the 21st Century: Competing Explanations

The First Great Recession of the 21st Century: Competing...

Author: Oscar Dejuan ,  Eladio Febrero
ISBN: 9781849807456
Format: Hardback
$271.69

They show that financial innovation has decoupled the real and financial sectors - not always to the benefit of...  Read More >>

Housing Markets and the Global Financial Crisis: The Uneven Impact on Households

Housing Markets and the Global Financial Crisis: The...

Author: Ray Forrest ,  Ngai-Ming Yip
ISBN: 9781849803755
Format: Hardback
$271.69

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International Corporate Governance

International Corporate Governance

Author: Kose John ,  Anil K. Makhija
ISBN: 9780857249159
Format: Hardback
$245.95

Presents research on corporate governance from a number of countries across the world, including the United States,...  Read More >>

Heterodox Analysis of Financial Crisis and Reform: History, Politics and Economics

Heterodox Analysis of Financial Crisis and Reform: History,...

Author: Joëlle Leclaire ,  Tae-Hee Jo
ISBN: 9781849801560
Format: Hardback
$231.80

Though the worst of the financial crisis of 2008 has, with hope, ebbed, it has forever changed the economy in the...  Read More >>

The Economics of Financial Turbulence: Alternative Theories of Money and Finance

The Economics of Financial Turbulence: Alternative Theories...

Author: Bill Lucarelli
ISBN: 9781849808781
Format: Hardback
$228.00

Its wide theoretical scope incorporates the theories of Marx, Keynes and various other Post Keynesian scholars of...  Read More >>

Anticipate, Respond, Recover: Healthcare Leadership and Catastrophic Events

Anticipate, Respond, Recover: Healthcare Leadership...

Author: Kathlyn McGlown
ISBN: 9781567933666
Format: Paperback
$221.76

Focuses on disaster preparedness and response from the healthcare leader’s perspective. The book shares practical...  Read More >>

IMF performance in the run-up to the financial and economic crisis: IMF surveillance in 2004-07

IMF performance in the run-up to the financial and economic...

Author: Ruben Lamdany ,  International Monetary Fund: Independent Evaluation Office
ISBN: 9781616350789
Format: Mixed media product
$38.95

CD-ROM contains background papers not included in the print report.  Read More >>

Bad News: How America's Business Press Missed the Story of a Century

Bad News: How America's Business Press Missed the Story...

Author: Anya Schiffrin ,  Anya Schiffrin
ISBN: 9781595585493
Format: Hardback
$65.87

"The role of the business press in the current financial crisis strikes at the heart of the heated debate about...  Read More >>

Financial Contagion: The Viral Threat to the Wealth of Nations

Financial Contagion: The Viral Threat to the Wealth...

Author: Robert W. Kolb
ISBN: 9780470922385
Format: Hardback
$250.80

""Financial Contagion: The Viral Threat to the Wealth of Nations covers a lot of territory. It is, of course, terribly...  Read More >>

Global Financial Crisis: The Ethical Issues

Global Financial Crisis: The Ethical Issues

Author: N. Dobos ,  C. Barry
ISBN: 9780230293519
Format: Paperback
$116.41

The Global Financial Crisis is acknowledged to be the most severe economic downturn since the 1930s, and one that...  Read More >>

Global Financial Crisis: The Ethical Issues

Global Financial Crisis: The Ethical Issues

Author: N. Dobos ,  C. Barry
ISBN: 9780230276635
Format: Hardback
$237.60

The Global Financial Crisis is acknowledged to be the most severe economic downturn since the 1930s, and one that...  Read More >>

After the Crisis: How Did it Happen?

After the Crisis: How Did it Happen?

Author: Jacques Attali
ISBN: 9782747215480
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Emerging Financial Markets

The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Emerging...

Author: Jonathan Batten ,  Peter G. Szilagyi
ISBN: 9780857247537
Format: Hardback
$373.95

The Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 has highlighted the resilience of the financial markets and economies from...  Read More >>

The First Global Financial Crisis of the 21st Century, Part II: June-December 2008

The First Global Financial Crisis of the 21st Century,...

Author: Andrew Felton ,  Carmen Reinhart
ISBN: 9781907142253
Format: Paperback
$90.54

The global financial crisis has changed finance and the global economy forever. The debate over its causes and consequences...  Read More >>

Australia in International Politics: An introduction to Australian foreign policy

Australia in International Politics: An introduction...

Author: Stewart Firth
ISBN: 9781742372631
Format: Paperback
$131.87

A revised edition of a widely used introduction to Australian foreign policy. It explains Australia's increasingly...  Read More >>

Risky Business: Perspectives on Corporate Misconduct

Risky Business: Perspectives on Corporate Misconduct...

Author: Shazeeda A. Ali
ISBN: 9789768167569
Format: Paperback
$64.56

Offers guidance on the role of governance in the scheme of regulatory reform. Divided into two parts – “International...  Read More >>

The End of Wall Street

The End of Wall Street

Author: Roger Lowenstein
ISBN: 9780143118725
Format: Paperback
$44.88

This revelatory work offers a blow-by-blow account of America's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression....  Read More >>

Consequences of Economic Downturn: Beyond the Usual Economics

Consequences of Economic Downturn: Beyond the Usual...

Author: M. Starr
ISBN: 9780230105317
Format: Hardback
$224.40

The 2007-09 financial crisis and economic downturn inflicted considerable hardship on the U.S. population.  Read More >>

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