Financial crises & disasters books

Soul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse...  Read More >>

This compilation of expert views from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management navigates what went...  Read More >>

A New York Times bestseller on the financial crisis--now updated to address the current economic landscape  Read More >>

Two of our leading financial journalists demythologize the cult of free markets, and offer a devastating critique...  Read More >>

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Looks at the challenge facing US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke in trying to clean up the problems affecting...  Read More >>

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It's a story of greed, mismanagement and dithering in which bankers seeking to make a quick buck, regulators engaged...  Read More >>

In the fall of 2008, the United States was plunged into a financial crisis more severe than any since the Great...  Read More >>

Applying a holistic approaching to global crises that challenge the world's economic, political, and social institutions,...  Read More >>

A masterful account of today's money culture, showing how the underpricing of risk leads to catastrophe.  Read More >>

From Black Monday to the Asian financial crisis, from the internet bubble to mortgage meltdown, our lives are ruled...  Read More >>

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Intends to unravel aspects of the biggest economic crisis to hit the capitalist world since the Great Depression...  Read More >>

This compilation of expert views from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management navigates what went...  Read More >>

In easy to understand terms and journalistic style, Read describes the reasons for global financial unrest arising...  Read More >>

Fannie Mae senior management promoted an image of the Enterprise as one of the lowest-risk financial institutions...  Read More >>

ITV's political editor Robert Peston lifts the lid on credit crunch Britain and the rise of the super-rich.  Read More >>

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Our newest Nobel Prize-winning economist shows how today’s crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression—and...  Read More >>

A number of leading economists and economic historians assemble here to examine nine key disasters with international...  Read More >>

Addresses the central economic event of the century, the Great Depression. This book argues that the Federal Reserve...  Read More >>

Offers guidance to policy makers seeking to design effective monitoring systems for disaster response management....  Read More >>

The subprime mortgage crisis wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people and threatened to derail the US economy...  Read More >>