Unexpected Outcomes: How Emerging Economies Survived the Global Financial Crisis (Wise Carol)(Paperback)

Unexpected Outcomes: How Emerging Economies Survived the Global Financial Crisis (Wise Carol)(Paperback)

' This volume documents and explains the remarkable resilience of emerging market nations in East Asia and Latin America when faced with the global financial crisis in 2008-2009. Their quick bounceback from the crisis marked a radical departure from the past, such as when the 1982 debt shocks

Can Financial Markets Be Controlled? (Davies Howard)(Pevná vazba)

The Global Financial Crisis overturned decades of received wisdom on how financial markets work, and how best to keep them in check. Since then a wave of reform and re-regulation has crashed over banks and markets. Financial firms are regulated as never before. But have these measures been

Road to Ruin - The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis (Rickards James)(Paperback / softback)

Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis? (Keen Steve)(Paperback)

The Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional economists completely by surprise. Many leading commentators declared shortly before the crisis that the magical recipe for eternal stability had been found. Less than a year later, the biggest economic

Bailouts or Bail-Ins?: Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Economies (Roubini Nouriel)(Paperback)

Roughly once a year, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the US treasury secretary and in some cases the finance ministers of other G-7 countries will get a call from the finance minister of a large emerging market economy. The emerging market finance minister will indicate

Wreckage (Robotham Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Set in the turbulent aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, The Wreckage pits Vincent Ruiz against powerful agents who will stop at nothing to bury

Events and Sustainability (Holmes Kirsten)(Paperback)

Increasing concerns over climate and environmental change, the global economic and financial crisis and impacts on host communities, audiences, participants and destinations has reinforced the need for more sustainable approaches to events. Sustainability now features as part of the bid process for

The Money GPS: Global Economic Collapse (Quintieri David)(Paperback)

The Financial Crisis was intentionally caused by those in control behind the scenes. They designed the monetary system using private central banks, forcing the public to accept their fiat currency as legal tender. They loan it out at interest, creating a perpetual downward spiral of debt slavery

The Violence of Austerity (Whyte David)(Paperback)

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis in 2008, Britain's government put into effect a hotly contested series of major cuts in public expenditure with the stated aim of restoring economic security. Since then, this reign of austerity continues to devastate contemporary Britain through a

Housing Shock: The Irish Housing Crisis and How to Solve It (Hearne Rory)(Paperback)

Hearne contextualises the Irish housing crisis within its broader global context by examining the origins of the contemporary crisis in terms of the extension of neoliberalism, marketisation and financialisation in housing. He examines the profound social, political and economic impacts of the

A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility (Gennaioli Nicola)(Paperback)

How beliefs shape financial markets and expose the economy to major risksThe collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer walk readers through the unraveling of Lehman and the ensuing meltdown of the US financial

The Money Mafia: A World in Crisis (Hellyer Paul T.)(Paperback)

Exposing perceived fault lines in our banking and financial systems and explaining how unemployment could be cut in half in two years and worldwide prosperity restored, this book argues the existence of exotic energy sources to replace fossil fuels and consequently recommends an immediate end to

Licensed Larceny: Infrastructure, Financial Extraction and the Global South (Hildyard Nicholas)(Paperback)

Licensed larceny is best viewed as a proxy for how for how effectively elites have constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society. For inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the rich. The provision of public services is

Adrift - How Our World Lost Its Way (Maalouf Amin)(Paperback / softback)

Breathtaking analysis of the current global crisis from one of the Arab world's most respected

Emerging Africa - How the Global Economy's 'Last Frontier' Can Prosper and Matter (Moghalu Kingsley Chiedu)(Paperback / softback)

Drawing on philosophy, economics and strategy, this title ranges from capitalism to technological innovation, finance to foreign investment, and from human capital to world trade to offer a new vision of

Planet Remade - How Geoengineering Could Change the World (Morton Oliver (The Economist))(Paperback / softback)

The risks of global warming are real, and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, and possibly insurmountable. So there is an urgent need for new thinking on climate change. To meet that need, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists is exploring