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  • Banks on the Brink

    Global Capital, Securities Markets, and the Political Roots of Financial Crises

    by Mark Copelovitch, David A. Singer ...
    Series series Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
    This innovative analysis investigates a complex issue of tremendous economic and political importance: what makes some countries vulnerable to banking crises, while others emerge unscathed? Banks on the Brink explains why some countries are more vulnerable to banking crises than others. Copelovitch and Singer highlight the effects of two variables in combination: foreign capital inflows and the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • This Time Is Different

    Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

    by Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff ...
    Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different"--claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. With this breakthrough study, leading ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • Austerity

    The History of a Dangerous Idea

    by Mark Blyth ...
    Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Shifts and the Shocks

    What We've Learned--and Have Still to Learn--from the Financial Crisis

    by Martin Wolf ...
    From the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times—a brilliant tour d’horizon of the new global economyThere have been many books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the financial and economic crisis that began in 2007. The Shifts and the Shocks is not another detailed history of the crisis but is the most persuasive and complete account yet published of what the crisis ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Why Minsky Matters

    An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist

    by Larry Randall Wray ...
    Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (1919–96). Although a handful of economists raised alarms as early as 2000, Minsky's warnings began a half-century earlier, with writings that set out a compelling theory of financial instability. Yet even today he remains largely outside mainstream economics; few people have a good grasp of his writings, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • How Global Currencies Work

    Past, Present, and Future

    by Barry Eichengreen, Arnaud Mehl, Livia Chitu ...
    A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuanAt first glance, the modern history of the global economic system seems to support the long-held view that the leading world power’s currency—the British pound, the U.S. dollar, and perhaps someday the Chinese yuan—invariably dominates international trade and finance. In How Global Currencies Work, three ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Keynes's Way to Wealth: Timeless Investment Lessons from The Great Economist

    by John F. Wasik ...
    How John Maynard Keynes became one of the greatest stock investors of all time--and how you can replicate his successJOHN MAYNARD KEYNES indelibly made his mark on global economics...Few people know, however, that he was also a daring, steel-nerved investor who built a multimilliondollar fortune in the stock market while providing financial counsel to the likes of Winston Churchill and FDR. Now, ... Read more

    $17.49 USD

  • Casino capitalism

    with an introduction by Matthew Watson

    by Susan Strange ...
    Originally released by Basil Blackwell in 1986, and then re-released by Manchester University Press in 1998, Casino capitalism is a cutting-edge discussion of international financial markets, the way they behave and the power they wield. It examines money's power for good as well as its terrible disruptive, destructive power for evil. Money is seen as being far too important to leave to bankers ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Sovereign Money

    Beyond Reserve Banking

    by Joseph Huber ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In coming to terms with the still smoldering financial crisis, little attention has been paid to the flaws within our monetary system and how these flaws lie at the root of the crisis.This book provides an introduction and critical assessment of the current monetary system. It begins with an up to date account of the workings of today’s system of state-backed ‘bankmoney’, illustrating the various ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History

    Edited by Youssef Cassis, Catherine R. Schenk, Richard S. Grossman ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The financial crisis of 2008 aroused widespread interest in banking and financial history among policy makers, academics, journalists, and even bankers, in addition to the wider public. References in the press to the term 'Great Depression' spiked after the failure of Lehman Brothers in November 2008, with similar surges in references to 'economic history' at various times during the financial ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History

    Edited by Randall Parker, Robert Whaples ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History aims to introduce readers to the important macroeconomic events of the past two hundred years. The chapters endeavour to explain what went on and why during the most significant economic epochs of the nineteenth, twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and how where we are today fits in this historical timeline. Its short chapters reflect the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Casino Capitalism

    How the Financial Crisis Came About and What Needs to be Done Now

    by Hans-Werner Sinn ...
    In Casino Capitalism Hans-Werner Sinn examines the causes of the banking crisis, points out the flaws in the economic rescue packages, and presents a master plan for the reform of financial markets. Sinn argues that the crisis came about because limited liability induced both Wall Street and Main Street to gamble with real estate properties. He meticulously describes the process of lending to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD