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Innovation and Economic Crisis - Lessons and Prospects from the Economic Downturn (Hardcover): Daniele Archibugi, Andrea... Innovation and Economic Crisis - Lessons and Prospects from the Economic Downturn (Hardcover)
Daniele Archibugi, Andrea Filippetti
R1,323 Discovery Miles 13 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The recent financial and economic crisis has spurred a lot of interest among scholars and public audience. Strangely enough, the impact of the crisis on innovation has been largely underestimated. This books can be regarded as a complementary reading for those interested in the effect of the crisis with a particular focus on Europe.

The Politics of Extreme Austerity - Greece in the Eurozone Crisis (Hardcover): G. Karyotis, R. Gerodimos The Politics of Extreme Austerity - Greece in the Eurozone Crisis (Hardcover)
G. Karyotis, R. Gerodimos
R2,037 Discovery Miles 20 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume investigates the policies and politics of extreme austerity, setting the crisis in Greece in its global context. Featuring multidisciplinary contributions and an exclusive interview with former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, this is the first comprehensive account of the economic crisis at the heart of Europe.

Financial Crisis - Causes, Context and Consequences (Paperback): Adrian Buckley Financial Crisis - Causes, Context and Consequences (Paperback)
Adrian Buckley
R2,474 Discovery Miles 24 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Financial Crisis, penned by Adrian Buckley, offers a fascinating close-up analysis of the causes of the 2007/8 financial crisis and its consequences placing the world of finance under the microscope, bringing together evidence of the involvement of banks, governments and regulators. It questions some of its most dangerous and dubious practices, witnessed while searching for the answer to the question: What really caused the financial crisis?

World on the Edge - How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse (Paperback): Lester Brown World on the Edge - How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse (Paperback)
Lester Brown
R826 Discovery Miles 8 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now. We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food shortages? Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues Lester R. Brown skilfully distils in World on the Edge. Bringing decades of research and analysis into play, he provides the responses needed to reclaim our future.

Retirement Security in the Great Recession (Hardcover): Christian Weller Retirement Security in the Great Recession (Hardcover)
Christian Weller
R2,816 Discovery Miles 28 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Few events have posed as many challenges for retirement and retirement policy as the crisis of the late 2000s. At the end of the last decade, the United States experienced the Great Recession-a combination of unprecedented wealth losses and historically high unemployment increases that marked the longest economic recession since the Great Depression. These adverse economic shocks coincided with the burgeoning entry into retirement by the baby boomer generation, those born in the United States between 1946 and 1964. The confluence of these trends meant that retirees may have faced greater economic insecurity than at any point since World War II. This book brings together a number of influential researchers whose work is focused on economic policies and their impacts on retirement income security. They come from both academic and policy backgrounds. Specifically, half of the eight contributors are academics, while the other four come from think tanks in Washington, DC. This book is thus intended to combine research and policy. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Aging and Social Policy.

The Welfare State as Crisis Manager - Explaining the Diversity of Policy Responses to Economic Crisis (Hardcover): P. Starke, A... The Welfare State as Crisis Manager - Explaining the Diversity of Policy Responses to Economic Crisis (Hardcover)
P. Starke, A Kaasch, F. Van Hooren, Franca Van Hooren
R1,953 Discovery Miles 19 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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 shocks in four different welfare states, over a 40-year period, the book reveals the ways in which expansion and retrenchment are shaped by domestic politics and existing welfare state institutions. Moreover, the study addresses the kind of policy change triggered by economic crisis. In contrast to conventional wisdom and previous scholarship, reactions tend to be characterised by incrementalism and 'crisis routines' rather than fundamental deviations from earlier policy patterns. For the first time, the study of domestic political dynamics following crisis is systematically embedded in the transnational policy debate, linking the Comparative Welfare State literature with scholarship on Global Social Policy.

The Renminbi Rises - Myths, Hypes and Realities of RMB Internationalisation and Reforms in the Post-Crisis World (Hardcover): C... The Renminbi Rises - Myths, Hypes and Realities of RMB Internationalisation and Reforms in the Post-Crisis World (Hardcover)
C Lo
R3,455 Discovery Miles 34 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Until recently the world has been relying on the US dollar and the Euro to lubricate the flow of global trade and finance. A newcomer, the Renminbi (RMB) or Chinese Yuan, joined the global monetary system in 2000. The rise of the RMB is both an indicator and a result of the evolution in the global macro landscape that shifts economic weight from the developed markets, led by Europe, Japan and the US, to the emerging markets, led by China.Research on RMB internationalisation is difficult because events have been unfolding fast, with frequent shifting regulations. Most financial market research is sales-driven, shallow and without serious investigation into the structural underpinning of events. Most crucially, there has been insufficient systematic research on the structural realities behind the RMB internationalisation exercise. No-one has openly questioned the credibility of the RMB as an international currency. This is the first book to address these issues by focusing on the structural factors behind the rise of the RMB. It uses a critical approach, questioning conventional wisdom and the status quo to anslyse China's currency ambition in the post-subprime world. Discussions combine rigorous research thoughts, data, facts and economic logic with real world issues to elaborate on the arguments and make them reader-friendly.

The Evolution of the Greek Economy - Past Challenges and Future Approaches (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Panagiotis E. Petrakis,... The Evolution of the Greek Economy - Past Challenges and Future Approaches (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Panagiotis E. Petrakis, Pantelis C. Kostis
R3,145 Discovery Miles 31 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book assesses the current state of the Greek economy and detects its development and growth prospects up to 2030. The analysis begins with 19th century Greece, addressing the repeated defaults that led to the formation of a dependent state, and the failed modernizing attempts. Then the book addresses current geostrategic dimensions as well as the current structure of institutions and culture in Greece. The second part presents the evolution of sustainability, governance, and inclusivity, as well as the evolution of culture in Greek society and insights into the production prototype. The third part of the book looks forward to what lays ahead for Greece up to 2030. It presents the theoretical background for two scenarios: the normal scenario (business as usual, including the effects of the recent Covid-19 pandemic) and the optimal scenario (a pro-growth scenario including increases of Total Factor Productivity through structural reforms). In presenting these scenarios, the book discusses issues ranging from a comparative analysis between Greece and the Eurozone, the developments in output gap and potential output, public debt, competitiveness, basic macroeconomic variables, a detailed analysis on investments, and inclusive growth.

John Maynard Keynes and the Economy of Trust - The Relevance of the Keynesian Social Thought in a Global Society (Hardcover):... John Maynard Keynes and the Economy of Trust - The Relevance of the Keynesian Social Thought in a Global Society (Hardcover)
D. Padua
R1,839 Discovery Miles 18 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Why does trust collapse in times of crisis? And when, instead, does it become a driver of growth, generating value? Through a sociological interpretation of the thought of John Maynard Keynes, Padua introduces the innovative concepts of Economy of Trust and Nominal Economy within the context of the 2008 financial crisis.

The Great Depression (Hardcover): Geoffrey E. Wood, Forrest Capie The Great Depression (Hardcover)
Geoffrey E. Wood, Forrest Capie
R28,903 Discovery Miles 289 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Great Depression had a devastating effect on much of the world's developed economies. (For example, at its nadir, around one-quarter of the US workforce was unemployed. And, in Britain, exports virtually halved by 1933 as international trade collapsed.) The political and cultural consequences of the Great Depression were equally far-reaching. The ongoing search fully to comprehend the worldwide economic collapse in the 1930s remains a dizzying intellectual challenge (the Holy Grail of macroeconomics' according to Ben Bernanke). Moreover, the current global economic and financial tumult has prompted many economists -- as well as scholars from related disciplines -- to explore the Great Depression anew in the hope of gaining knowledge on how best to survive the latest desperately serious and sustained global economic slump. As research in and around the Great Depression flourishes as never before this new addition to Routledge's Critical Concepts in Economics series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the subject's vast literature and the continuing explosion in scholarly output. Edited by two leading scholars in the field, this new Routledge Major Work is a five-volume collection of classic and cutting-edge contributions. With a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, The Great Depression is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued as a vital research tool.

Women and Recession (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover): Jill Rubery Women and Recession (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
Jill Rubery
R5,542 Discovery Miles 55 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1988, this book compiles a collection of works investigating the impact of recession on women's employment. The authors argue that the most important explanation of differences in women's experience between the countries is the form of labour market regulation and organisation. They point out that current changes in these forms of regulation, and not displacement of female labour, pose the main threat to any gains that women have made in the labour market in the post- World War II period.

The Night Cleaner (Hardcover): F Aubenas The Night Cleaner (Hardcover)
F Aubenas
R262 R232 Discovery Miles 2 320 Save R30 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The idea was simple: pack a suitcase, go to another city where you have no connections and try to find a job, anonymously. That was the idea that took Florence Aubenas - one of France's most accomplished undercover journalists - on a journey into the worst recession since the Great Depression. Day after day she searched for work, one unemployed worker among others, with no special skills or qualifications. She immersed herself in the crowd of job seekers, going from one employment office to another, eventually managing to cobble together a few hours working as a night cleaner on a ferry that crossed the English Channel. For many people the global financial crisis seems real enough but remote from their daily lives. They have little sense of what it really means to be unemployed in the midst of a recession. Florence Aubenas was determined to find out. This book is the story of her journey. The Night Cleaner became an instant number one bestseller in France and has subsequently become a bestseller in many countries throughout the world. Better than any academic treatise on the topic, this book shows what recession means today.

The Greek Crisis and European Modernity (Hardcover): Anna Triandafyllidou The Greek Crisis and European Modernity (Hardcover)
Anna Triandafyllidou; Edited by R. Gropas; Hara Kouki
R1,953 Discovery Miles 19 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection explores the current economic and political crisis in Greece and more widely in Europe. Greece is used to illustrate and exemplify the contradictions of the dominant paradigm of European modernity, the ruptures that are inherent to it, and the alternative modernity discourses that develop within Europe. By critically reviewing the 'alternative' path to modernization that Greece has taken, the authors question whether the current Greek economic and political-moral crisis is the resulting failure of this 'alternative' or 'deviant' modernization model or whether it is the result of a wider crisis in the dominant European economic and political modernity paradigm.

Uncertainty, Expectations and Asset Price Dynamics - Essays in Honor of Georges Prat (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Fredj Jawadi Uncertainty, Expectations and Asset Price Dynamics - Essays in Honor of Georges Prat (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Fredj Jawadi
R3,375 Discovery Miles 33 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Written in honor of Emeritus Professor Georges Prat (University of Paris Nanterre, France), this book includes contributions from eminent authors on a range of topics that are of interest to researchers and graduates, as well as investors and portfolio managers. The topics discussed include the effects of information and transaction costs on informational and allocative market efficiency, bubbles and stock price dynamics, paradox of rational expectations and the principle of limited information, uncertainty and expectation hypotheses, oil price dynamics, and nonlinearity in asset price dynamics.

Globalization and the Reform of the International Banking and Monetary System (Hardcover): O. Hieronymi Globalization and the Reform of the International Banking and Monetary System (Hardcover)
O. Hieronymi
R2,893 Discovery Miles 28 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book argues that a successful monetary and banking reform requires: a rollback of monetary nationalism and return to monetary internationalism; trust in the banking system with its basic functions restored; a balance between competition and solidarity in order to assure political and social acceptance of globalization.

Research Handbook on State Aid in the Banking Sector (Hardcover): Francois-Charles Laprevote, Joanna Gray, Francesco De Cecco Research Handbook on State Aid in the Banking Sector (Hardcover)
Francois-Charles Laprevote, Joanna Gray, Francesco De Cecco
R7,651 Discovery Miles 76 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The global financial crisis that struck Europe has profoundly affected its political, economic and regulatory landscape. This Research Handbook provides an inter-disciplinary view of State interventions in the banking sector, their control under State aid rules since the financial crisis of 2008 and the progressive emergence of a pan-European regulation of banks in distress. Assessing the policy of bank rescues over the past nine years provides a striking summary of European successes and failures and of the continuing tension between integration and fragmentation forces at play within the EU and its single market. This Research Handbook offers insights from law and economics - on the extent to which the EU/EEA State aid regime is able to address adequately the concerns of financial regulation without losing sight of its primary purpose. The contributors include academics, specialists in financial regulation, lawyers, economists and regulators, who have all followed or been directly involved in cases relating to the financial crisis. The Research Handbook on State Aid in the Banking Sector will appeal to advanced students and academics in law and economics, particularly those with an interest in financial institutions, governance and banking. Contributors include: C. Botelho Moniz, G. Bruzzone, M. Cassella, A. Champsaur, F. Coupe, F. de Cecco, J.-S. Duprey, S. Frisch, C. Froitzheim, P. Gouveia e Melo, J. Gray, V. Iftinchi, B. Joosen, I. Kokkoris, F.-C. Laprevote, S. Micossi, L. Nascimento Ferreira, P. Nicolaides, V. Power, C. Quigley, N. Robins, S. Shamsi, P. Solomon, D.S. Tynes

Global Politics and Financial Governance (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2010): R. Germain Global Politics and Financial Governance (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2010)
R. Germain
R4,576 Discovery Miles 45 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The financial crisis of 2007-9 prompted many to ask how financial systems from America and Iceland to Russia and Hungary could have been so misgoverned that their near collapse plunged the entire world into recession. Randall Germain assess what needs to be done, and by whom, to avoid a repetition of what he calls the 'great freeze'.

Economic and Monetary Union Macroeconomic Policies - Current Practices and Alternatives (Hardcover): P. Arestis, Malcolm Sawyer Economic and Monetary Union Macroeconomic Policies - Current Practices and Alternatives (Hardcover)
P. Arestis, Malcolm Sawyer
R1,945 Discovery Miles 19 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book focuses on the construction of the economic policies of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and its institutions. It reviews the faltering economic performance of the EMU countries before and after the onset of the financial crisis. It exposes the shortcomings and design faults of the EMU project on fiscal and monetary policies under the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) and now the 'fiscal compact'. It critically examines the labour market agenda of the EMU and argues for avoidance of the neo-liberal employment policies being advocated. It proposes an alternative policy agenda for a sustainable currency union, and asks whether a currency union can be sustained without de facto political union.

Lost Decades - The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (Paperback): Menzie D. Chinn, Jeffry A. Frieden Lost Decades - The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (Paperback)
Menzie D. Chinn, Jeffry A. Frieden
R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The U.S. economy lost the first decade of the twenty-first century to an ill-conceived boom and subsequent bust. It is in danger of losing another decade to the stagnation of an incomplete recovery. How did this happen? Read this lucid explanation of the origins and long-term effects of the recent financial crisis, drawn in historical and comparative perspective by two leading political economists.

By 2008 the United States had become the biggest international borrower in world history, with more than two-thirds of its $6 trillion federal debt in foreign hands. The proportion of foreign loans to the size of the economy put the United States in league with Mexico, Indonesia, and other third-world debtor nations. The massive inflow of foreign funds financed the booms in housing prices and consumer spending that fueled the economy until the collapse of late 2008. This was the most serious international economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Menzie Chinn and Jeffry Frieden explain the political and economic roots of this crisis as well as its long-term effects. They explore the political strategies behind the Bush administration s policy of funding massive deficits with foreign borrowing. They show that the crisis was foreseen by many and was avoidable through appropriate policy measures. They examine the continuing impact of our huge debt on the continuing slow recovery from the recession. Lost Decades will long be regarded as the standard account of the crisis and its aftermath."

Money in One Lesson - And Why it Doesn't Work the Way We Think it Does (Paperback): Gavin Jackson Money in One Lesson - And Why it Doesn't Work the Way We Think it Does (Paperback)
Gavin Jackson
R299 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'Superb' - Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up Money is essential to the economy and how we live our lives, yet is inherently worthless. We can use it to build a home or send us to space, and it can lead to the rise and fall of empires. Few innovations have had such a huge impact on the development of humanity, but money is a shared fiction; a story we believe in so long as others act as if it is true. Money is rarely out of the headlines - from the invention of cryptocurrencies to the problem of high inflation, extraordinary interventions by central banks and the power the West has over the worldwide banking system. In Money in One Lesson, Gavin Jackson answers the most important questions on what money is and how it shapes our world, drawing on vivid examples from throughout history to demystify and show how societies and its citizens, both past and present, are always entwined with matters of money. 'A highly illuminating, well-researched and beautifully written book on one of humanity's most important innovations' - Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator, Financial Times

Financial Institutions and Markets - 2007-2008 -- The Year of Crisis (Hardcover): G. Kaufman, R Bliss Financial Institutions and Markets - 2007-2008 -- The Year of Crisis (Hardcover)
G. Kaufman, R Bliss
R2,892 Discovery Miles 28 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is a collection of research papers that contribute to the understanding of ongoing developments in financial institutions and markets both in the United States and globally.

Euro Crash - The Exit Route from Monetary Failure in Europe (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2012): B. Brown Euro Crash - The Exit Route from Monetary Failure in Europe (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2012)
B. Brown
R2,856 Discovery Miles 28 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Euro Crash diagnoses the three fatal design flaws in EMU as constructed by the Maastricht Treaty and analyses future likely monetary scenarios for Europe, demonstrating how the best of these would be the creation of a new narrow monetary union between France and Germany founded on strict monetarist principle and without a European Central Bank.

Economic Crisis in Europe - What it means for the EU and Russia (Hardcover, New): J. Debardeleben, C. Viju Economic Crisis in Europe - What it means for the EU and Russia (Hardcover, New)
J. Debardeleben, C. Viju
R1,528 Discovery Miles 15 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This interdisciplinary volume probes the economic and political impact of both, the 2008-09 financial-economic crisis and the subsequent sovereign debt crisis in Europe. Basing their analysis on a well-researched depiction of the origins and scope of the crisis, leading experts from Europe and North America critically examine its potentially destabilizing political effects. These include questions on the capacity of the European Union to respond swiftly and effectively, challenges to key EU policy commitments (such as climate change and anti-protectionist trade policies), and the manner in which potentially discontent electorates hold their leaders to account. This volume is unique in devoting special attention to the post-communist states, both those that have joined the European Union as well as Russia, and suggests that a global crisis of this type does not respect traditional political or economic boundaries, but rather that it has effects at the regional, national and supranational level. By extending the geographic scope, the authors address important questions about why some countries have suffered more that others and what the crisis will mean for the future shape of Europe.

International Monetary and Financial Law - The Global Crisis (Hardcover): Mario Giovanoli, Diego Devos International Monetary and Financial Law - The Global Crisis (Hardcover)
Mario Giovanoli, Diego Devos
R8,478 Discovery Miles 84 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This new book from MOCOMILA, the Monetary Law Committee of the ILA, is a unique collaboration of the top academic and practitioner monetary and financial lawyers from around the world. It examines current legal issues of international monetary and financial law in the light of the current global financial crisis and consequent reforms of international and domestic financial architecture. The book deals with post-crisis financial regulation and supervision, including that of rating agencies and sovereign wealth funds, and financial crisis resolution with an analysis of bank rescue operations.
Covering matters of current interest such as central banks, international payments, money laundering, and sovereign debt, this book is for banking and financial practitioners, in-house lawyers, central banks and international financial institutions as well as academics in the field of international and financial law.

International Business and Institutions after the Financial Crisis (Hardcover): Y. Temouri, C. Jones International Business and Institutions after the Financial Crisis (Hardcover)
Y. Temouri, C. Jones
R3,632 Discovery Miles 36 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

International Business and Institutions after the Financial Crisis provides an in-depth discussion and offers new insights concerning the ways in which firms from developed and developing countries are performing in the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. This book examines various issues from different viewpoints, particularly that of institutions, and draws on research conducted in different country settings. This book examines various issues from different viewpoints, particularly that of institutions, and draws on research conducted in different country settings.

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