The aim of this book is to contribute a much deeper understanding of tourism crisis and disaster management with a specific focus on the Asia-Pacific. Chapters contributed by international tourism scholars and practitioners discuss both the theoretical and practical approaches t…
The aim of this book is to contribute a much deeper understanding of tourism crisis and disaster management with a specific focus on the Asia-Pacific. Chapters contributed by international tourism scholars and practitioners discuss both the theoretical and practical approaches t…
Eichengreen argues that the gold standard of the 1920s set the stage for the Depression of the 1930s by heightening the fragility of the international financial system, and was the mechanism that transmitted the destabilizing impulse from the USA to the rest of the world.
"In this unique volume from the World Public Forum Dialogue of Civilizations and the Social Science Research Council, some of the world's greatest minds--from Nobel Prize winners to long-time activists--explore what the prolonged instability of the so-called Great Recession mean…
This bold re-examination of the history of U.S. economic growth is built around a novel claim, that productive capacity grew dramatically across the Depression years (1929-1941) and that this advance provided the foundation for the economic and military success of the United Sta…
"In this take-no-prisoners analysis, [the author] frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the righthook of farce. In the attacks …
"The financial crisis keeps us on edge and creates a diffuse sense of helplessness. Well-nigh unfathomable problems lead to measures that seem like emergency operations on the open heart of the Western world, performed with no knowledge of the patient's clinical history. The gra…
The relationship between central banks' information transparency and the onset of economic crises has been a long discussed topic in economics. It attracts more attentions in the event of the Southeast Asian crises. Stiglitz (1998a, b and 1999) suggests that to investigate the t…
This dissertation examines the short-run impacts of the Indonesian economic crises on different demographic outcomes of infants and women. In the first chapter, I examine whether the recent Indonesian financial crisis and the 1997/1998 drought and smoke haze crises had adverse e…
Boom, bust, and misery : the curse of capitalism -- History of the roller coaster -- Bush, boom, and bust -- The income gap -- The consumption gap -- The housing crisis -- Investment and profit -- The credit balloon and the financial crisis -- Government spending and taxes -- Th…
