Economic and financial crises and disasters Books
WW Norton & Co The Big Short
Book SynopsisThe #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff.Trade Review"No one writes with more narrative panache about money and finance than Mr. Lewis....[he] does a nimble job of using his subjects’ stories to explicate the greed, idiocies and hypocrisies of a system notably lacking in grown-up supervision....Writing in faintly Tom Wolfe-ian prose, Mr. Lewis does a colorful job of introducing the lay reader to the Darwinian world of the bond market." -- Michiko Kakutani - The New York Times"Superb: Michael Lewis doing what he does best, illuminating the idiocy, madness and greed of modern finance. . . . Lewis achieves what I previously imagined impossible: He makes subprime sexy all over again." -- Andrew Leonard - Salon.com"One of the best business books of the past two decades." -- Malcolm Gladwell - New York Times Book Review"I read Lewis for the same reasons I watch Tiger Woods. I’ll never play like that. But it’s good to be reminded every now and again what genius looks like." -- Malcolm Gladwell - New York Times Book Review"I recommend everyone within the sound of my voice to read [this] book." -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)"I’ve joined a lot of other people in just finishing Michael Lewis’s book, The Big Short, and it’s really an eye-opener of what was going on at the time that this real estate bubble was created." -- Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)"I read it, marked it up for my staff, underlined it, made copies and asked them to read it." -- Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.)"[A]n incredible piece of commentary on Wall Street." -- Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.)"If you’re wondering if there’s importance or an urgency to this issue, read the book The Big Short by Michael Lewis, and then, when you’re finished reading, come back to the floor and say that you support this amendment [on financial reform]." -- Senator Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota)
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Pluto Press From the Local to the Global
Book SynopsisA completely revised third edition of a classic development studies textbookTrade Review'An ideal lift off point for anyone interested in the issues that underpin poverty and injustice at local and global levels. It combines accessible, informative writing on the most essential international development issues' -- Marina Sitrin, author of They Can't Represent Us: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy (with Dario Azzellini, Verso, 2014) and Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (Zed Books, 2012).'Of global value to a radically changing world. It is essentially a survey of all the issues that affect the global South and shape the global North' -- Hector Maldonado Felix, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru, and founder of the NGO Asociacion Gestion Salud y Poblacion.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Creating New Paradigms for Development - Stephen McCloskey Part I: Development Discourse and Definitions 1. Measuring Human Development - Andy Storey 2. A Human Rights Based Approach to Development - Máire Braniff and Paul Hainsworth Part II: The Economics of Development 3. Overseas Development Aid: Is It Working? - Patrick Marren 4. Trade, Development and Inequality - Denis O’Hearn 5. Debt Injustice in the Global North and South - Nessa Ni Chasaide Part III: Development Policy 6. Climate Change: Reorienting the Development Agenda - David Selby 7. Europe, Development and the Colonial Legacy - Gerard McCann 8. Post-2015 Development Assessment: Proposed Goals and Indicators - Walden Bello 9. Women Contributing to Gender-Just, Equitable and Sustainable Development - Patricia Muñoz-Cabrera 10. The Complexity of Migration - Michal Cenker Part IV: Regional Development 11. Rethinking Latin America: Back to the Future? - Ronaldo Munck 12. The Arab Spring: Trading Development for Stability - Heba M. Khalil 13. China: The New Face of Development - Russell Duncan 14. Meaningful Development Goals and Sub-Saharan Africa - Chrispin R. Matenga Part V: Human Development 15. Children, Childhood and Work: Perceptions and Practices - Madeleine Leonard 16. Development Education as an Agent of Social Change - Stephen McCloskey Conclusion: Neoliberal Decline and International Development Post-2015 - Gerard McCann Notes on Contributors Index
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Economic Modeling in the Post Great Recession Era
Book SynopsisReality-based modeling for today''s unique economic recovery Economic Modeling in the Post Great Recession Era presents a more realistic approach to modeling, using direct statistical applications to address the characteristics and trends central to current market behaviors. This book''s unique focus on the reality of today''s markets makes it an invaluable resource for students and practitioners seeking a comprehensive guide to more accurate forecasting. While most books treat the economy as if it were in a vacuum, building models around idealized or perception-biased behaviors, this book deals with the economy as it currently standsin a state of recovery, limited by financial constraints, imperfect information, and lags and disparities in price movements. The authors identify how these characteristics impact various markets'' behaviors, and quantify those behaviors using SAS as the primary statistical tool. Today''s economy bears a number of unique attrTable of ContentsPreface/Justification xiii Acknowledgments xxi Chapter 1 Setting the Context 1 The Problem with Uncritical Assumptions in a Less-Than-Perfect Economy 2 The Problem with Models in an Imperfect Economy 3 Four Characteristics of a Less-Than-Perfect Economy 4 Economic Policy Inconsistencies—The Parable of Strange Bedfellows 13 Chapter 2 Dynamic Adjustment in an Economy: Frictions Matter 15 Introduction 16 Quantifying Frictions: Is the Long-Run Average a Useful Guide for the Future? 32 Modeling Dynamic Adjustment due to Economic Frictions: Decision Making in an Evolving World 49 Dynamic Economic Adjustment: An Evolution unto Itself 67 Appendix 68 A Case for the Multiple Markets: 1983–2008 68 The Labor Market: 1983–2008 70 Chapter 3 Information: Past Imperfect, Present Incomplete, Future Uncertain 73 Story Behind the Numbers 76 Conclusion 103 Chapter 4 Price Adjustment and Search for Equilibrium 105 What Barriers Are There to Perfectly Flexible Prices? 107 Implications 112 Finding Dynamic Adjustment in the Data 116 Conclusion 121 Chapter 5 Business Investment: This Time Is Different 123 Drivers of Business Spending 125 Putting It All Together: Explaining Slow Recovery in Capital Investment 134 Chapter 6 Corporate Profits: Reward, Incentive, and That Standard of Living 135 Introduction: Profits as Essential Partner 136 The Role of Profits in the Economic Cycle: Five Drivers 137 The Role of Profits: Incentives and Rewards 140 Concluding Remarks: Modeling Profits 167 Chapter 7 Labor Market Evolution: Implications for Private-Sector and Public-Policy Decision Makers 169 Part I: Labor Market Imperfections 171 Part II: Heterogeneity in the Labor Market 182 Part III: How Do Secular Labor Market Trends Impact Economic Policy? 196 Chapter 8 Inflation: When What You Get Isn’t What You Expect 205 Introduction 206 What Is Inflation? 207 Why Does Inflation Matter? 208 What Determines Inflation? 212 Inflation after the Great Recession 219 Application: Predicting if Central Banks Can Achieve Price Stability 230 Chapter 9 Interest Rates and Credit: Capital Markets in the Post–Great Recession World 235 Imperfect Guidance in an Uncertain World 236 A Look at Actual History over the Long Run 247 Credit and Administered Rates 250 Imperfect Information and Credit 255 Conclusion: Shift from Historical Benchmarks 280 Chapter 10 Three-Dimensional Checkers: Open Economy, Capital Flows, and Exchange Rates 281 Newton’s Third Law 282 Introducing a New Price to the Analysis: The Role of Exchange Rates 289 Three-Dimensional Checkers on an International Playing Field 295 A Perfect Model in an Imperfect World 298 Concluding Remarks: Future Looks Different 330 Chapter 11 Assessing Economic Policy in an Imperfect Economy 331 Generalized Policy Model 333 Rules and Reputation: Beyond Economic Benchmarks 338 Confronting Our Three Market Imperfections 340 Economic Policy in the Context of an Imperfect Economy 359 About the Authors 361 Index 363
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Bloomberg Press Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Europe Reset: New Directions for the EU
Book SynopsisIn the last decade, the EU has been hit by a series of crises, most recently the UK's decision to leave the union following the Brexit referendum. In light of this, questions have been raised about the need to reform the whole model of European integration, with the aim of making the union more flexible and more accountable. In this book, Richard Youngs proposes an alternative vision of European co-operation and shows how the EU must re-invent itself if it is to survive. He argues that citizens should play a greater role in European decision-making, that there should be radically more flexibility in the process of integration and that Europe needs to take a new, more coherent, approach to questions of defence and security. In proposing this model for a `reset' version of Europe, Youngs reinvigorates the debate around the future of Europe and puts forward a new agenda for the future of the EU.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Confusion’s Masterpiece: The EU’s Poly-Crisis 3. False solutions 4. The democracy problem 5. Europe as a citizens’ project 6. A Compact for European Citizens 7. Divergent Europe: towards radical flexibility 8. A secure Europe? 9. The long road to solidarity
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Verso Books The Return of the Public: Democracy, Power and
Book SynopsisUnder the incurious gaze of the major media, the political establishment and the financial sector have become increasingly deceitful and dangerous in recent years. At the same time, journalists at Rupert Murdoch's News International and elsewhere have been breaking the law on an industrial scale. Now we are expected to stay quiet while those who presided over the shambles judge their own conduct.In The Return of the Public, Dan Hind argues for reform of the media as a necessary prelude to wider social transformation. A former commissioning editor, Hind urges us to focus on the powers of the media to instigate investigations and to publicize the results, powers that editors and owners are desperate to keep from general deliberation.Hind describes a programme of reform that is modest, simple and informed by years of experience. It is a programme that much of the media cannot bring themselves even to acknowledge, precisely because it threatens their private power. It is time the public had their say.Trade ReviewA superb analysis of the way in which citizens have lost power in a political and economic system built around the free market. -- Roy Greenslade * Guardian *A book marked by a somber and scathing rhetoric that recalls the Frankfurt School critique of thinkers such as Adorno and Marcuse. -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *In his ingenious and quietly passionate argument, Dan Hind shows how we could take democracy into the media so that it becomes something regular people can shape-a part of how we rule ourselves instead of stealing democracy from us. -- Anthony Barnett, founder, openDemocracyDrawing on history and democratic theory, this book offers a powerful indictment of public exclusion. It is also original, breaking with standard corporatist approaches to reform. Well written, eloquent and very well worth reading. -- James Curran, co-author of Power Without ResponsibilityA persuasive and vital analysis. -- David Cromwell, co-editor of Media Lens * Times Higher Education Supplement *Winner, 2011 Best Book of Ideas * Bristol Festival of Ideas *
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Kapitalismus: Historische Annäherungen
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Institutional Congruence: The Riddle of Leviathan
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