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Economic & financial crises & disasters

Paperback. Written by leading academics in the field of local governance, this book provides a broad framework in which to analyse the impact of the financial crisis on public services and local government. Editor(s): Richardson, Joanna. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JPP; JPR; KCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847426994
ISBN
9781847426994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 38.98

Hardcover. In this book the author evaluates the benefits and shortcomings of specific types of financial regulation. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCX; KFF; KNST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137447098
ISBN
9781137447098
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.87

Hardcover. The book presents arguments against the taxpayers'-funded bailing out of failed financial institutions, and puts forward suggestions to circumvent the TBTF problem, including some preventive measures. It ultimately argues that a failing financial institution should be allowed to fail without fearing an apocalyptic outcome. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCX; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230277762
ISBN
9780230277762
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.58

Hardback. Editor(s): Iglesias-Rodriguez, Pablo; Triandafyllidou, Anna; Gropas, Ruby. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Num Pages: 374 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 16 colour illustrations, 5 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JP; KCP; KCX; LNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 598.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137509543
ISBN
9781137509543
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.66

Hardcover. Uses research and real world case materials to examine how market performance can be sustained, even during a period of austerity, by the implementation of innovation-based growth opportunities and the exploitation of technology. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCX; KJC; KJH; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137324429
ISBN
9781137324429
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.78

Paperback. The gripping story of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', which transformed international business and changed our world, for fans of Michael Lewis' bestselling The Big Short and Liaquat Ahamed's prizewinning Lords of Finance. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; KCX; KCY; KFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473625105
ISBN
9781473625105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.92

Hardback. Hardie investigates the link between the financialization - defined as the ability to trade risk - and the capacity of emerging market governments to borrow from private markets. He considers the government bond markets in Brazil, Lebanon and Turkey and includes interviews with 126 financial market actors. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, 16 black & white tables, 3 figures. BIC Classification: JPQB; KCP; KCX; KFFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2012 ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230360556
ISBN
9780230360556
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.61

Hardcover. Huw Macartney considers the politics of depoliticisation in response to the Euro-zone debt crisis, and the limits to depoliticisation as indicated by recent resistance movements. Num Pages: 96 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPHV; JPS; KCP; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Number of pages
108
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137298003
ISBN
9781137298003
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.82

Paperback. In responding to the financial crash of 2008, both the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration have relied on prescriptions developed by John Maynard Keynes, the most important economist since Marx. But should we be relying on Keynes? What did Keynes actually say? Did he make his case? This title concludes that he did not. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: KCA; KCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Axios Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781604190441
ISBN
9781604190441
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.62

Hardback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781634630320
ISBN
9781634630320
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 253.08
€ 172.78

Paperback. Series: Cornell Studies in Money. Num Pages: 280 pages, 48. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; KCP; KCX; KFFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801475672
ISBN
9780801475672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.47

Hardcover. Beliefs held by US and European elites about unregulated markets and a currency union without fiscal union led to a transatlantic crisis unmatched in severity since the Great Depression. Leading scholars of elites analyze how elites have responded to the crisis, are altered by it and what this 'hour of elites' means for democracy. Editor(s): Best, Heinrich; Higley, John. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPB; JPQB; KCP; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137345745
ISBN
9781137345745
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Paperback. .
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784783136
ISBN
9781784783136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.92

Hardback. This book addresses three main dimensions of risk management in emerging markets: 1) the effectiveness of risk management practices; 2) current issues and challenges in risk assessment and modelling in emerging market countries; 3) the responses of emerging markets to the recent financial crises and the design of risk management models. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: KCM; KCX; KFF; KJMV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 238 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1144.
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786354525
ISBN
9781786354525
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.22

Hardback. At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession. This book explains how international bankers moved French money across Europe, and how the foreign exchange system was so overloaded by the demands of war that a massive banking crash resulted. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; KCX; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137381781
ISBN
9781137381781
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.15

Hardback. Num Pages: 184 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KCD; KCX; KJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137582546
ISBN
9781137582546
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.42

Paperback. How could tiny Iceland build a banking system in less than a decade that proportionally exceeded Switzerland's? Why did the bankers decide to grow the system so fast? How did businesses tunnel money out of the banking system? And why didn't anybody stop them? Bringing Down the Banking System answers these questions. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DNC; KCBM; KCX; KFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137455574
ISBN
9781137455574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.68

Paperback. In this volume, now in paperback, Green and Janmaat employ an original and highly interdisciplinary mixed method approach to identify four major traditions of social cohesion in developed societies, analyzing how these various mechanisms are withstanding the strains of the current global financial crisis. Series: Education, Economy and Society. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 black & white tables, 52 figures. BIC Classification: JFFS; JHB; JPA; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 215 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137453242
ISBN
9781137453242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.22

Hardcover. In an original, and highly interdisciplinary, mixed method approach, Green and Janmaat identify four major traditions of social cohesion in developed societies, analyzing how these various mechanisms are withstanding the strains of the current global financial crisis. Series: Education, Economy and Society. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFP; JFFS; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230290136
ISBN
9780230290136
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Essential guide to understanding the roots of the economic crisis, and how to solve it. Num Pages: 240 pages, 50 charts, 15 tables. BIC Classification: KCC; KCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745329765
ISBN
9780745329765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 23.07

Paperback. The much-anticipated book from former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown about the global economic crisis and the way forward Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; KCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
9780857202888
ISBN
9780857202888
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 4.99

Hardcover. This volume examines the numerous changes occurring in European legislation for the prevention and management of banking crises. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Num Pages: 240 pages, 26 figures. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JMC; KCX; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137555649
ISBN
9781137555649
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.69

Hardback. The legendary financier reflects on key problems in the deepening global economic crisis since publication of his international bestseller The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Crash of 2008 Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JM; KCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 205 x 21. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
PublicAffairs,U.S.
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781610391528
ISBN
9781610391528
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.84

Paperback. Provides an analysis of the forces behind the economic crisis. This title challenges the core principles of economic orthodoxy, explaining why financial markets do not obey the efficient market principles but are instead inherently unstable and habitually crisis prone. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
Harriman House Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906659578
ISBN
9781906659578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.42

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