.png){kind=logo}
Economic & financial crises & disasters
Results 341 - 360 of 414
Economic & financial crises & disasters
Paperback. Using contemporary accounts from commentators such as Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs and Paul Krugman,the author conveys the mood before each catastrophe, what it was like in the heat of the moment, how, afterwards, we tried to explain away the chaos - and then failed to learn from it before the whole process started all over again. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 3JMC; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141042312
- ISBN
- 9780141042312
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.90
€ 15.99
€ 11.90
Paperback. A New York Times best-selling call to arms from Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393345087
- ISBN
- 9780393345087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.65
€ 17.99
€ 16.65
Paperback. Morris Goldstein, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, has held several senior staff positions at the International Monetary Fund (1970-94), including deputy director of its research department (1987-94). From 1994 to 2010, he held the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow position. Series: Policy Analyses in International Economics. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; KCX; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- The Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780881327052
- ISBN
- 9780881327052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.68
€ 26.99
€ 20.68
Hardback.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691145235
- ISBN
- 9780691145235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 36.45
€ 50.99
€ 36.45
paperback. It was Wall Street's toughest investment bank, taking risks where others feared to tread, run by testosterone-fuelled gamblers who hung a sign saying 'let's make nothing but money' over the trading floor. This book tells the outrageous story of how Wall Street's entire house of cards came crashing down. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; KCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141039596
- ISBN
- 9780141039596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.64
€ 24.99
€ 18.64
Hardback. Aronoff challenges the conventional view that reckless credit produced the US housing boom and the financial crisis, explaining how the large current account deficit, and its mercantilist origin, was a more fundamental cause. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 black & white tables, 76 figures. BIC Classification: 3JMC; KCX; KFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137553683
- ISBN
- 9781137553683
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.84
€ 128.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 3 halftones. 26 line illus. 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPHV; KCP; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 147 x 225 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691165721
- ISBN
- 9780691165721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
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
€ 127.61
Paperback. Euro Crash diagnoses the three fatal design flaws in EMU as constructed by the Maastricht Treaty and analyses future likely monetary scenarios for Europe, demonstrating how the best of these would be the creation of a new narrow monetary union between France and Germany founded on strict monetarist principle and without a European Central Bank. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; KCBM; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 214 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368491
- ISBN
- 9780230368491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.68
€ 126.68
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
€ 152.22
Paperback. A good-humoured, informative and revealing account of Greece's dire troubles, reported through the stories of the people that define the country today. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3JMG; HBJD; HBLX; KCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 210 x 35. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784975036
- ISBN
- 9781784975036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.94
€ 13.99
€ 10.94
Paperback. The global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision-making in the grey zone between economics and politics. Legitimized by a rhetoric of emergency, ad hoc bodies have usurped democratically elected governments. Translator(s): Garnett, Simon. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: KCP; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509509300
- ISBN
- 9781509509300
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.81
€ 24.81
Hardback. From bank bailouts to austerity, Europe's and Ireland's response to the economic crisis has been engineered specifically to shift the burden of paying for the crisis onto ordinary citizens while investors, financiers, bankers and the privileged are protected. The authors expose the class-based nature of Ireland's crisis resolution. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 figures, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBR; KCM; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137468758
- ISBN
- 9781137468758
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Paperback. How did we get to where we are? This title shows that the roots of our financial failure lie not with individuals, but with an idea - the idea that markets are inherently rational. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: KCA; KCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141036519
- ISBN
- 9780141036519
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQB; KCX; KFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 202 x 17. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 8.7.2011 edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780385529969
- ISBN
- 9780385529969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. This title explains how people in financial careers - from CEO, investment manager, and banker to insurer, lawyer, and regulator - can and do manage, protect, and increase these assets. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: KCG; KCP; KCX; KFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- With a New preface by the author
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691158099
- ISBN
- 9780691158099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.82
€ 26.99
€ 24.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: KCL; KCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Updated edition with a New Preface
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691163628
- ISBN
- 9780691163628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.04
€ 23.99
€ 18.04
Hardback. This topical book considers the economic, political and social consequences of the economic crisis, the nature of social protection and the dynamics of the current crisis of regulation. It is unique in documenting how economic and social welfare are inconsistent with corporate freedom. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JKVK; JPQB; KCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 20. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447313755
- ISBN
- 9781447313755
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.70
€ 98.70
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
€ 15.99
€ 15.42
Hardback. Tuckett argues that most economists' explanations of the financial crisis miss its essence; they ignore critical components of human psychology. He offers a deeper understanding of financial market behaviour and investment processes by recognizing the role played by unconscious needs and fears in all investment activity. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JMTC; KCK; KCX; KCZ; KFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 234 x 21. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2011 ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230299856
- ISBN
- 9780230299856
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.44
€ 150.44