Financial crises & disasters books

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It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street

It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and...

Author: Nomi Prins
ISBN: 9780470529591
Format: Hardback
$68.51

Exposes the fundamental follies of our economic system and the schemes of the bigwigs who have no intention of letting...  Read More >>

Debt Spiral: How Credit Failed Capitalism

Debt Spiral: How Credit Failed Capitalism

Author: Martin Lowy
ISBN: 9780615319124
Format: Paperback
$63.36

Helps you to understand the financial crisis of 2007-2009.  Read More >>

Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy

Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the...

Author: Peter S. Goodman
ISBN: 9780805089806
Format: Hardback
$66.00

When the financial crisis struck in 2008, Main Street felt the blow just as hard as Wall Street. This title takes...  Read More >>

Fleeced!: How we've been betrayed by the politicians, bureaucrats and bankers - and how much they've cost us

Fleeced!: How we've been betrayed by the politicians,...

Author: David Craig ,  Matthew Elliot
ISBN: 9781849012867
Format: Paperback
$35.99

In Fleeced! David Craig and Matthew Elliott expose the 'guilty men': the politicians, bureaucrats and bankers who...  Read More >>

Debt Spiral: How Credit Failed Capitalism

Debt Spiral: How Credit Failed Capitalism

Author: Martin Lowy
ISBN: 9780615318295
Format: Hardback
$84.48

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Asia and the Subprime Crisis: Lifting the Veil on the ‘Financial Tsunami’

Asia and the Subprime Crisis: Lifting the Veil on the...

Author: C. Lo
ISBN: 9780230236196
Format: Hardback
$250.80

This is the first book to put together Asia and the developed world in the subprime crisis context and to combine...  Read More >>

No Way to Run an Economy: Why the System Failed and How to Put It Right

No Way to Run an Economy: Why the System Failed and...

Author: Graham Turner
ISBN: 9780745329765
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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No Way to Run an Economy: Why the System Failed and How to Put It Right

No Way to Run an Economy: Why the System Failed and...

Author: Graham Turner
ISBN: 9780745329772
Format: Hardback
$190.08

Essential guide to understanding the roots of the economic crisis, and how to solve it  Read More >>

The Great Crash: How the Stock Market Crash of 1929 Plunged the World into Depression

The Great Crash: How the Stock Market Crash of 1929...

Author: Selwyn Parker
ISBN: 9780749909888
Format: Paperback
$38.99

A highly readable history of the stock market crash of 1929, and the depression that followed it  Read More >>

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Incredible Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Incredible Inside...

Author: Larry McDonald ,  Patrick Robinson
ISBN: 9780091936150
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A news-breaking explanation that answers the question everyone still asks: ""why did it happen?"" Larry McDonald,...  Read More >>

Bankruptcies & Bailouts

Bankruptcies & Bailouts

Author: Julie Guard ,  Wayne Antony
ISBN: 9781552663134
Format: Paperback
$31.95

Taking a closer look at the industrialized world, this revealing study claims that Canada is in the midst of an...  Read More >>

Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Capital Markets

Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle...

Author: Philip T. Hoffman ,  Gilles Postel-Vinay
ISBN: 9780674036369
Format: Paperback
$47.39

When financial institutions collapse, new ones take their place, shaping markets for generations to come. This book...  Read More >>

The Great Depression: A Diary

The Great Depression: A Diary

Author: Benjamin Roth ,  James Ledbetter
ISBN: 9781586487997
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Reveals another side of the Great Depression. This book chronicles some of the most telling moments of the Great...  Read More >>

Geneva Reports on the World Economy 10

Geneva Reports on the World Economy 10

Author: Centre for Economic Policy Research ,  Alberto Giovannini
ISBN: 9780955700903
Format: Paperback
$87.85

Looks at the effects of low inflation on the global economy.  Read More >>

The Great Financial Crisis in Finland and Sweden: The Nordic Experience of Financial Liberalization

The Great Financial Crisis in Finland and Sweden: The...

Author: Lars Jonoug ,  Jaakko Kiander
ISBN: 9781848443051
Format: Hardback
$313.50

The conclusion is that long-term effects of financial crises – financial liberalization and integration – are not...  Read More >>

COLLATERAL DAMAGED

COLLATERAL DAMAGED

Author: Charles R. Geisst
ISBN: 9781576603253
Format: Book
$73.79

Sometime in the 1970s and 1980s, the use of credit cards, which had begun as a convenience, began to grow into an...  Read More >>

Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets

Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the...

Author: Frank Partnoy
ISBN: 9781586487843
Format: Paperback
$47.39

A revised, updated edition of the critically acclaimed history of the lost decade of high financethe 1990swhen Wall...  Read More >>

Rebuild America: Solving the Economic Crisis Through Civic Works

Rebuild America: Solving the Economic Crisis Through...

Author: Scott Myers-Lipton
ISBN: 9781594517211
Format: Hardback
$336.00

A history of US civic works, including an analysis of how they might solve the economic, infrastructure and environmental...  Read More >>

Curbing Bailouts: Bank Crises and Democratic Accountability in Comparative Perspective

Curbing Bailouts: Bank Crises and Democratic Accountability...

Author: Guillermo Rosas
ISBN: 9780472117130
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Do democratic governments and authoritarian regimes respond to banking crises in the same way? Banking crises threaten...  Read More >>

Billion-Dollar Lessons

Billion-Dollar Lessons

Author: Paul B. Carroll ,  Chunka Mui
ISBN: 9781591842897
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Provides methods that managers, boards, and even investors can adopt to avoid making the same mistakes. This book...  Read More >>

Prudent Lending Restored: Securitization After the Mortgage Meltdown

Prudent Lending Restored: Securitization After the Mortgage...

Author: Yasuyuki Fuchita ,  Richard J. Herring
ISBN: 9780815703365
Format: Paperback
$66.99

There is little dispute that the mortgage meltdown of 2007, created by irresponsible lending and lax oversight,...  Read More >>

Microeconomics: Global Financial Crisis Edition, (with Global Economic Crisis GEC Resource Center Printed Access Card)

Microeconomics: Global Financial Crisis Edition, (with...

Author: Akila Weerapana ,  John Taylor
ISBN: 9781439081303
Format: Mixed media product
$124.02

This edition re-emphasises the text's modern approach, concise yet thorough coverage of current microeconomic theories...  Read More >>

Financial Crisis Management and Bank Resolution

Financial Crisis Management and Bank Resolution

Author: John Raymond LaBrosse ,  Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal
ISBN: 9781843118251
Format: Hardback
$1306.80

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