Dissects the policy mistakes, including Obama's doomed market-led response to the crisis and the obsession of central banks with the red herring of inflation. This title warns that the collapse of Eastern European economies can lead to political crisis in the ex-Soviet states th…
The financial crisis of 2008 devastated the American economy and caused U.S. policymakers to rethink their approaches to major financial crises. More than five years have passed since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, but questions still persist about the best ways to avoid and r…
Although Latin America weathered the Great Depression better than the United States and Europe, the global economic collapse of the 1930s had a deep and lasting impact on the region. The contributors to this book examine the consequences of the Depression in terms of the role of…