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A ground-breaking and sharply insightful book revealing the wide-ranging effects of the global economic crisis, the Arab Spring and the ongoing rebalancing of the world economy on international migration and its configuration. It debunks 'the business as usual' approach to the f…
Financialization, greed, ineffectively regulated banks - all have been blamed for the global economic crisis. In reality, though, these were mere subplots in a much grander, almost mythological, drama. Remarkable and provocative, The global minotaur gives an essential account of…
Written during an ongoing period of global economic crisis, "The Welfare State as a Crisis Manager" examines the practice and potential of using social policy to cope with crises. Through an in-depth analysis of social policy reactions in the wake of international economic shock…
Since the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, there has been much debate about the role of financial regulation and the causes of financial instability in the industry. Where studies commonly question the value of a regulated rather than free market, this book focuses on the diff…
This book examines the effectiveness of surveillance by international institutions for financial crisis prevention. It discusses issues relating to designing effective micro- and macro-prudential policies, their mixes and their coordination with monetary policies for achieving f…
This book is a dialogue between sociologists and heterodox economists on the nature of capitalist money and on understanding financial crises arising from money's dual purposes and tensions. This volume is a debate about a sociology and economics of money: a form of positive tre…
This open access book discusses financial crisis management and policy in Europe and Latin America, with a special focus on equity and democracy. Based on a three-year research project by the Jean Monnet Network, this volume takes an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, anal…
This volume brings together the proceedings of the conference ""From past experience to new approaches and synergies: The future of protection management for archaeological heritage in times of economic crisis"", held in the new Acropolis Museum in Athens in 2012. The conference…
As the European Union is continually remade through periods of crisis, conditionality emerges as the technique of governance tasked with realizing cohesion through 'social transformation' in the candidate states of the European periphery. Drawing on EU documents, field research,…
This book is one of the first historical revisions of the Latin American debt crisis of 1982, exploring recently disclosed archival sources for a number of creditor and debtor institutions. It fills a gap on the national and international historiography on international finance …
"The euro was generally considered a success in its first decade. Nevertheless, the 'unanticipated' financial crisis in the summer of 2007 has developed gradually into the worst global economic crisis in post-war economic history and a sovereign debt crisis, calling into questio…
This book reflects on the innovations that central banks have introduced since the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers to improve their modes of intervention, regulation and resolution of financial markets and financial institutions. Authors from both academia and policy circles ex…
Offering an understanding of the global nature of financial crises, this title is a potent reminder of the enormous impact that the decisions of central bankers can have, of their fallibility, and of the terrible human consequences that can result when they are wrong.
As late as 2007, Anglo Irish Bank was a darling of the markets, internationally recognized as one of the fastest growing financial institutions in the world. By 2008, it was bust. Now, for the first time, the full story of the Anglo disaster is being told.
Building on his work as a leading member of the renowned Research on Money and Finance group, Costas Lapavitsas presents a searing critique on the neoliberal nature of the Eurozone and ruthlessly disects the roots of the current financial turmoil and the European debt crisis.
Restructuring the balance sheets of Western governments, banks and households is an important issue in the recovery after the recent crisis. This book focuses on sovereign debt, sovereign risk and the developing economic and financial business climate and explains why the year o…
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Are financial crises embedded in IT? Can gender studies offer insights into financial reporting? Feminist theories and Science and Technology Studies (STS) can enrich a critique of financial crises in capitalism as the author argues their critical, political economic approaches …