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Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Financial crises & disasters

The State, Class and the Recession (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback): Stewart Clegg, Geoff Dow, Paul Boreham The State, Class and the Recession (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)
Stewart Clegg, Geoff Dow, Paul Boreham
R1,187 Discovery Miles 11 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The contributions to this edited collection, first published in 1983, are based on two underlying themes. The first examines the major recession that took hold of the global economy during the 1980s and assesses its effects on key areas of social structure, including political and economic democracy and trade union representation. The second theme considers the limitations of state intervention in such changing circumstances, with particular reference to the welfare state. This is a comprehensive title, which is of great relevance to those with an interest in the current global economic situation and the potential impact of this on the welfare state and class structure.

Southern Europe and the Financial Earthquake - Coping with the First Phase of the International Crisis (Hardcover): Susannah... Southern Europe and the Financial Earthquake - Coping with the First Phase of the International Crisis (Hardcover)
Susannah Verney, Anna Bosco, Marina Costa Lobo
R2,584 Discovery Miles 25 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Following the outbreak of the international financial crisis, Southern Europe became an epicentre of economic instability and international concern. The prospect of a sovereign debt default in the eurozone s flaky fringe sent shock waves through the European and global economies. Examining the crucial initial phase, when the financial crisis was just beginning to spill over into the real economy, the volume surveys the impact of the September 2008 Lehman Brothers collapse across the EU s southern periphery. The six South European eurozone members Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta are viewed in comparative perspective with EU candidate state and non-eurozone member, Turkey. In an era before the spectacular EU/IMF bailouts, the picture that emerges is one of national differentiation, illuminating these countries different starting points and varying policy responses in the face of the gathering financial storm.

This book was published in 2009 as a special issue of South European Society and Politics."

Industrial Poverty - Yesterday Sweden, Today Europe, Tomorrow America (Hardcover, New Ed): Sven R. Larson Industrial Poverty - Yesterday Sweden, Today Europe, Tomorrow America (Hardcover, New Ed)
Sven R. Larson
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Conventional wisdom says that Europe's crisis is a financial crisis. But is this really the case? In Industrial Poverty, economist Sven R. Larson, challenges this view and suggests instead that Europe is in a state of permanent economic decline. The crisis, says Larson, is in fact a welfare-state crisis. Over decades, government has grown too big for the private sector to pay for; when the recession hit in 2008 most European economies could no longer bear the burden of the welfare state. Raging deficits, accelerating unemployment and harsh austerity policies hurled the continent into more than a regular recession. Europe is entering a new economic state: industrial poverty. Using Sweden in the 1990s as an example, Larson shows how a welfare-state crisis combined with the wrong kind of austerity policies replaces prosperity with industrial poverty. In a desperate effort to balance the budget and save the welfare state in the midst of the crisis, the Swedish government subjected the country to some of the toughest austerity measures on record. The outcome was a permanent reduction in the standard of living for Swedish families as well as the standard of government services. Today, Europe is going through the same transition into industrial poverty. Tomorrow, it could be the United States, unless Congress and the President take decisive action against the runaway budget deficit.

Dark Towers - Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction (Hardcover): David Enrich Dark Towers - Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction (Hardcover)
David Enrich
R824 R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Save R185 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A searing exposé by an award-winning journalist of the most scandalous bank in the world, including its shadowy ties to Donald Trump's business empire. In January 2017, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. As he delivered his fiery Inaugural address, a grey-haired woman named Rosemary Vrablic sat in the VIP section of the audience. Vrablic was an executive at Deutsche Bank, and without her, Donald Trump probably wouldn’t have been moving into the White House. This is the never-before-told story of how a 150-year-old German bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality, a history that traces back to its role helping the Nazis build Auschwitz. In the 1990s, a succession of hard-charging executives made the fateful decision to chase Wall Street riches—and set Deutsche Bank on an epic path of devastation. Its sins included manipulating markets, violating international sanctions, and laundering money for Russian oligarchs. Desperate for an American foothold, Deutsche started doing business with a self-promoting real estate magnate who most banks deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next 20 years, Deutsche executives—including a man with a damaged brain, the son of a Supreme Court justice, and Rosemary Vrablic—loaned billions to Trump and the Kushner family. Why? To unravel this mystery, the book traces the rise and fall of Bill Broeksmit, an American executive who was regarded as the conscience of Deutsche Bank. In 2014, he was found hanging in his London apartment. His son gets access to Broeksmit’s computer files and embarks on a wild quest to understand why his father killed himself. The answers he finds will help explain how Deutsche Bank became the financial equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction.

Greek Capitalism in Crisis - Marxist Analyses (Hardcover): Stavros Mavroudeas Greek Capitalism in Crisis - Marxist Analyses (Hardcover)
Stavros Mavroudeas
R4,362 Discovery Miles 43 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Despite the depth of the Greek crisis, the exorbitant burdens placed upon the working people and the massive popular resistance movement to capitalist policies, there is a definite lack of consistently Marxist analyses of the Greek problem. International debates regarding the Greek crisis have been dominated by orthodox (Neoclassical and neo-Keynesian) approaches. The heterodox side of these debates has been occupied by Radical Political Economy approaches (usually radical Post-Keynesian or Marxo-Keynesian perspectives). Moreover, they are dominated by the 'financialization' thesis which is quite alien to Marxism, neglects the sphere of production and professes that the global crisis is simply a financial crisis that has nothing to do with 'real' accumulation and the profit rate. This book argues that by emphasizing the sphere of production and profitability, classical Marxist analysis better explains the Greek crisis than its orthodox and heterodox competitors. The contributors present critiques of the prevalent approaches and offer studies of the Greek crisis that use the methodology and the analytical and empirical tools of classical Marxist Political Economy.In particular, it is shown that the Greek crisis was caused by falling profitability and the ensuing over accumulation crisis. The 'broad unequal exchange' existing between the euro-center and the euro-periphery contributed to Greek capital's falling profitability. This book enriches the debate about the Greek economic crisis by demonstrating the insights that can be drawn by considering the Marxist alternative to the dominant mainstream and heterodox approaches.

China and the Global Financial Crisis - A Comparison with Europe (Paperback): Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Jean-Francois  Di Meglio,... China and the Global Financial Crisis - A Comparison with Europe (Paperback)
Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Jean-Francois Di Meglio, Xavier Richet
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines China s response to the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, and the resulting new status acquired by China within the international economy. It considers the things China did to weather the crisis, discussing the stimulus package put in place by China and how China s banks coped, but above all examines the measures which countries outside China look to China to put in place in order to better encourage and secure world-wide economic recovery, measures such as currency revaluation, tax reform and greater stimulation of domestic demand. The book contrasts China s response to the crisis, and China s increasingly central role in the world economy, with the responses of the European Union. The book also assesses China s increasingly important regional role, in particular its dialogue with the new Japanese government, and China s positioning towards Southeast Asia, and also discusses the growth of Chinese foreign direct investment.

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Banking Regulation and the Financial Crisis (Paperback): Jin Cao Banking Regulation and the Financial Crisis (Paperback)
Jin Cao
R1,356 Discovery Miles 13 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is a review on the economic theories of systemic risks in the financial market and the topics in constructing the macroprudential framework for banking regulation in the future. It explains the reasons why the traditional microprudential regulatory framework missed its target in stabilizing the market and preventing the crisis, and discusses the principles and instruments for designing macroprudential rules.

The Mediterranean Welfare Regime and the Economic Crisis (Hardcover): Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes, Pau Mari-Klose The Mediterranean Welfare Regime and the Economic Crisis (Hardcover)
Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes, Pau Mari-Klose
R1,125 Discovery Miles 11 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic traits. Moving from the macro comparative analysis of long-term socio-demographic trends to the study of specific welfare programs, the chapters included in this book employ a variety of methods and approaches to review the specificities of the Mediterranean Welfare model. All chapters aim to analyze the role that the recent transformations experienced by Southern European societies (ageing, increasing women labour market participation, decreasing expectations for care within the family, immigration) have had over this model. The basic characteristics of this regime type are supposed to be strongly grounded in the values shared by these societies (familistic tendencies, clientelism, lack of generalized trust), but the modernization which these countries experienced in recent years have contributed, with a different speed and to a different degree, to a significant transformation in their axiological foundations. The impact of the current fiscal and economic crisis on the Mediterranean Welfare regimes may be contributing to the growing de-legitimatisation of political systems of these countries, something particularly important in a region that established democratic regimes only (relatively) recently. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Societies.

Taxation in the New State (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback): J. Hobson Taxation in the New State (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)
J. Hobson
R1,184 Discovery Miles 11 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1919, Taxation in the New State explores the practical application of tax policy to the financial situation of post-World War I Britain. Hobson assesses policy according to the tax payer's ability to bear the burden and draws a distinction between 'cost' and 'surplus'. He proposes a number of reforms and considers the pitfalls of attempting the find required revenue using ordinary taxation in a post-war financial crisis.

Crises and Cycles in Economic Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias (Paperback): Daniele Besomi Crises and Cycles in Economic Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias (Paperback)
Daniele Besomi
R1,687 Discovery Miles 16 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book investigates from the perspective of the major economic dictionaries the notions of economic crisis and cycles. It gives an extensive summary of a number of significant entries on this subject, with an introductory essay to each entry placing them (and the dictionary to which they belong) in their context, giving some details on the author of the dictionary entry, and assessing the entry s (and its author s) contribution. The broad picture (including the history of these encyclopedic tools) is examined in the introductory essays.

Extra resources may be accessed at the author's personal website:

http: //www.danielebesomi.ch/dictionaries/crises_in_dictionaries/index.html

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Contagion of Bank Failures (RLE Banking & Finance) - The Relation to Deposit Insurance and Information (Paperback): Sangkyun... Contagion of Bank Failures (RLE Banking & Finance) - The Relation to Deposit Insurance and Information (Paperback)
Sangkyun Park
R1,346 Discovery Miles 13 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume

  • examines the vulnerability of sound banks during financial crises
  • helps understand the nature of financial crises and other banking issues
  • traces the history of banking reform in the United States from 1933 until 1992
  • discusses deregulation in the US banking system
American Default - The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold (Hardcover): Sebastian Edwards American Default - The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold (Hardcover)
Sebastian Edwards
R884 R720 Discovery Miles 7 200 Save R164 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economy The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt did just that, when in a bid to pull the country out of depression, he depreciated the U.S. dollar in relation to gold, effectively annulling all debt contracts. American Default is the story of this forgotten chapter in America's history. Sebastian Edwards provides a compelling account of the economic and legal drama that embroiled a nation already reeling from global financial collapse. It began on April 5, 1933, when FDR ordered Americans to sell all their gold holdings to the government. This was followed by the abandonment of the gold standard, the unilateral and retroactive rewriting of contracts, and the devaluation of the dollar. Anyone who held public and private debt suddenly saw its value reduced by nearly half, and debtors--including the U.S. government-suddenly owed their creditors far less. Revaluing the dollar imposed a hefty loss on investors and savers, many of them middle-class American families. The banks fought back, and a bitter battle for gold ensued. In early 1935, the case went to the Supreme Court. Edwards describes FDR's rancorous clashes with conservative Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, a confrontation that threatened to finish the New Deal for good-and that led to FDR's attempt to pack the court in 1937. At a time when several major economies never approached the brink of default or devaluing or recalling currencies, American Default is a timely account of a little-known yet drastic experiment with these policies, the inevitable backlash, and the ultimate result.

The Global Financial Crisis and the Korean Economy (Hardcover, New): Jang-Sup Shin The Global Financial Crisis and the Korean Economy (Hardcover, New)
Jang-Sup Shin
R4,353 Discovery Miles 43 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The world economy fell into a global financial crisis in 2008/9 and is still jittered by its aftershocks. Like other financial crises happened in the world economy, it came as a surprise. In historical perspective, financial crises should be understood as a natural fact of life in the world economy and a more pertinent question that should be posed would be why people so easily forget and do not learn from the historical experience. This book deals with the question in two ways. First, it investigates the frame of mind that distances people from the reality of life. At the heart of it, it argues that there are wrong perceptions on the working of the world economy, in particular, the international financial market. It summarizes them as 'the five conventional wisdoms' in the international financial market and, by critically examining them, it draws on 'the five financial theorems', which would provide intellectual pillars for a more realistic understanding of the global financial market. Second, the book examines in detail the case of an emerging market economy that fell into a financial crisis twice in the recent decade. South Korea provides us with an interesting case of emerging market financial crises that came as 'surprises': it faced a financial crisis in 1997/98 after it had been acclaimed as one of 'East Asian miracle economies' and it was again befallen to a crisis during the global financial crisis in 2008/2009 after it was widely regarded as a country that had recovered from the crisis with one of the most successful implementations of the IMF-sponsored reforms. The book attempts to provide the readers with a realistic understanding of emerging market financial crises by interpreting the recent global financial crisis and the Korean crises with some general concepts manifested in 'the five financial theorems'. It also tries to draw more general implications for policy management of emerging market economies.

Institutions and Development After the Financial Crisis (Hardcover): Sebastiano Fadda, Pasquale Tridico Institutions and Development After the Financial Crisis (Hardcover)
Sebastiano Fadda, Pasquale Tridico
R2,744 Discovery Miles 27 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The financial crash of 2007-2008 and the subsequent global economic crisis have raised questions about the viability of capitalism and the desirability of alternative types of economic system. In this context, Keynesian and Marxist ideas in particular have become more popular. These two approaches, along with some other heterodox perspectives, agree on the need for institutional analysis and for better institutions and governance in order to promote economic development. This volume poses fundamental institutional, evolutionary and ontological questions relating to the emergence of a new mode of governance after the financial crisis. The book argues that, contrary to the recent austerity policies implemented in the EU in particular, a new level of government involvement is required in order to keep aggregate demand stable, make full employment possible, and create a transparent financial sector, serving the real economy and encouraging productive investments. This book will be of interest to students, researchers and policy makers working in the areas of finance, institutional economics, development economics and international political economy.

The State of Labour - The Global Financial Crisis and its Impact (Hardcover, New): Sharit K.  Bhowmik The State of Labour - The Global Financial Crisis and its Impact (Hardcover, New)
Sharit K. Bhowmik
R3,085 R2,618 Discovery Miles 26 180 Save R467 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book analyzes the adverse effects of globalization and liberalization - acutely manifest in the increased financialization of capital and the concomitant global financial crisis of 2008-09 - on the labour force, especially in the developing countries. Drawing upon case studies from several countries including India, Columbia, Malawi, Brazil and Thailand, it highlights the worsening plight of working class as a whole and informal labour in particular. The essays examine issues such as down-sizing, lowering of wages, insecurity and erosion of labour rights, and show how labour is grappling with the situation. The volume critically re-assesses varied aspects of the growing informal sector: its dubious credential as an employment provider during crises; its non-adherence to internationally recognized standards of decent work; the problems and potential of workers' unions; and the need for a regulatory regime. It also discusses changes in the Indian labour market induced by business environment and technology as well as its future dynamics. Presenting a historical review of labour markets, the work explores the deregulation wave under the globalization of 1980s and the interactions between existing unstable asset markets and labour markets. The book will prove especially useful to students and scholars in economics, labour studies and sociology, and those engaged in public policy and governance.

Economic Policy and the Financial Crisis (Hardcover, New): Lukasz Mamica, Pasquale Tridico Economic Policy and the Financial Crisis (Hardcover, New)
Lukasz Mamica, Pasquale Tridico
R4,224 R2,904 Discovery Miles 29 040 Save R1,320 (31%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The consequences of the global economic crisis which started in the United States in 2007-08 are still being felt in most of the advanced economies, and the mainstream tools of recovery are not having the required results. It seems that many of the after-effects of the crisis, including the instability of the financial markets, increasing public debts and limited economic growth, require new solutions from both economic policy and theory. Lower aggregate demand during the crisis increased the pressure on firms to be more competitive and at the same time, the crisis in the banking system has had a negative impact on the willingness of financial institutions to give credit to companies for investment. Therefore, the key issue for current economic policy is to find a balance between the stabilisation of public finance and maintaining the momentum of long-term growth. This book offers an evolutionary-developmental analysis, combining elements of neo-Schumpeterian economics, institutional economics and post-Keynesian economics, to show that selection processes within an economy, and the institutional rules shaping those processes, are substantially more important than usually recognised by evolutionary economic theory. Two major challenges for economic theory and policy, in particular, have emerged during the crisis. The first is the rise of unemployment coupled with growing public deficits. The second is the financial instability which threatens the permanence of economic development. This book examines the performance of the advanced economies since the crisis and explores why some of them have been more successful in tackling these challenges than others. It is argued that the reasons for the varied performances of these economies lie in the economic policies which were introduced before and in the aftermath of the crisis and the differences in the regulation of their labour markets. This volume will be of interest to students and academics in the areas of macroeconomics, public economics and public management.

Towards a Socioanalysis of Money, Finance and Capitalism - Beneath the Surface of the Financial Industry (Paperback, New):... Towards a Socioanalysis of Money, Finance and Capitalism - Beneath the Surface of the Financial Industry (Paperback, New)
Susan Long, Burkard Sievers
R1,381 Discovery Miles 13 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The current global financial crisis has raised awareness of the impact the world of finance has on the economy and the future of democracy. Following the crisis, this book aims at a deep understanding of the human psycho-social dynamics beneath the surface of the financial industry, its markets and institutions. It seeks to understand why the seemingly rational world of economic behavior, with its calculated models and predictions, at times goes horribly wrong. This book uses the discipline of socio-analysis to explore the meaning of money, markets and the broad financial world that so strongly affects our daily lives. Socio-analysis contributes to an awareness and understanding of underlying unconscious desires, fantasies and illusions that bring about the irrational inflation of faith and trust in the world of money, finance and capital(ism). The insight that the financial crisis 'was essentially psychological in origin' (Robert Shiller) and that the world of finance is broadly shaped if not determined by irrational often unconscious factors is not yet broadly shared. This book appears to be one of the first, if not the first contribution that explicitly focuses on what is beneath the surface of money, finance and capital. It invites the reader to explore the financial world in depth. The aim of this book is to provide businesses, organizational consultants, students, researchers and interested persons more broadly with a detailed exploration of the psycho-social dynamics of the financial industry as it exists currently within the capitalist system. The contributors to this book come from Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, The Netherlands, UK, and USA.

Profitability and the Great Recession - The Role of Accumulation Trends in the Financial Crisis (Hardcover, New): Ascension... Profitability and the Great Recession - The Role of Accumulation Trends in the Financial Crisis (Hardcover, New)
Ascension Mejorado, Manuel Roman
R3,369 R2,908 Discovery Miles 29 080 Save R461 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the mid-1980s, investors in the US increasingly directed capital towards the financial sector at the expense of non-financial sectors, lured by the perception of higher profits. This flow of capital inflated asset prices, creating the stock market and housing bubbles which burst when the imbalance between stagnant incomes and rising debts triggered the banking meltdown. Profitability and the Great Recession analyses these trends in profitability and capital accumulation, which the authors identify as the root cause of the financial crisis, in the context of the US and other major OECD countries. Drawing on insights from Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx, the authors interpret the relationship between capital accumulation and profitability trends through the conceptual lens of classical political economy. The book provides extensive empirical evidence of declining rates of US non-financial corporate accumulations from the mid-1960s and profitability trends in that sector falling from post-war highs. In contrast to this, it is shown that there was a vigorous rise of profitability in the financial sector from a 1982 trough to the early part of the twenty-first century, which led to the bloating of that sector. The authors conclude that the long-term falling accumulation trend in the non-financial corporate sector, highlighted by the bankruptcy of major automobile corporations, stands out as the underlying force that transformed the financial crisis into a fully-fledged Great Recession. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in the areas of economics, political economy, business and finance.

Innovation and Economic Crisis - Lessons and Prospects from the Economic Downturn (Paperback): Daniele Archibugi, Andrea... Innovation and Economic Crisis - Lessons and Prospects from the Economic Downturn (Paperback)
Daniele Archibugi, Andrea Filippetti
R1,236 R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Save R502 (41%) Ships in 12 - 17 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.

A Tale of Two Crises - A Multidisciplinary Analysis (Hardcover, New): Seetharam Kallidaikurichi A Tale of Two Crises - A Multidisciplinary Analysis (Hardcover, New)
Seetharam Kallidaikurichi
R4,199 Discovery Miles 41 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Some analysts looked at the 1997/98 East Asian crisis not as one crisis but as a combination of crises, beginning with a crisis of confidence and evolving into a currency crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis and a political crisis. This book is a multidisciplinary study of financial crises, in particular, the Asian crisis of 1997 and the more recent global financial crisis of 2008. Looking at financial crises not as one crisis, but as a combination of crises beginning with a crisis of confidence, this study steps out of the traditional mould and examines financial crises from novel perspectives. The book highlights that since the origin of a financial crisis is a confidence crisis, either in the whole economy or a particular sector, the Asian and recent global crises could have backward and forward linkages to political regimes and institutions, culture and tradition, the role of the media, society and societal evolution and development processes of regulatory regimes. Through contributions by authors in fields ranging from sociology and political science, media and Islamic banking, to law and regulation, this study adopts a broad framework for understanding financial crises, and sheds light on the interwoven and complex structures and often overlooked aspects which contribute to the holistic understanding of this topic.

The Rise and Fall of Money Manager Capitalism - Minsky's half century from world war two to the great recession... The Rise and Fall of Money Manager Capitalism - Minsky's half century from world war two to the great recession (Hardcover, New)
Eric Tymoigne, L.Randall Wray
R4,369 Discovery Miles 43 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The book studies the trends that led to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, as well as the unfolding of the crisis, in order to provide policy recommendations to improve financial stability. The book starts with changes in monetary policy and income distribution from the 1970s. These changes profoundly modified the foundations of economic growth in the US by destroying the commitment banking model and by decreasing the earning power of households whose consumption has been at the core of the growth process.

The main themes of the book are the changes in the financial structure and income distribution, the collapse of the Ponzi process in 2007, and actual and prospective policy responses. The objective is to show that Minskya (TM)s approach can be used to understand the making and unfolding of the crisis and to draw some policy implications to improve financial stability.

Race For Tomorrow - Survival, Innovation And Profit On The Front Lines Of The Climate Crisis (Paperback): Simon Mundy Race For Tomorrow - Survival, Innovation And Profit On The Front Lines Of The Climate Crisis (Paperback)
Simon Mundy
R380 R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Save R76 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Climate change isn’t just transforming our physical environment, it’s permanently shifting the landscape of energy, farming, technology and business. It’s eroding ancient ways of life, shaking up global finance and driving a historic new wave of mass migration.

In this extraordinary journey across twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy meets the people embroiled in a race that is already reshaping the modern world.

  • WHY is a maverick scientist building a home for engineered mammoths in northeast Siberia?
  • HOW is China's green energy push driving a hazardous mining rush in Congo?
  • COULD an Israeli fake meat startup make a fortune while helping to save the Amazon?
  • HOW is Greenland’s melting sea ice putting its people at the centre of a global power struggle?
  • WHO are the entrepreneurs chasing breakthroughs in fusion power, electric cars, and technology to suck carbon from the atmosphere?

As the impacts of climate change cascade through the planet and the global economy, who is battling to survive the worst impacts – and who is chasing the most lucrative rewards?

Filled with richly reported human stories from every inhabited continent, this is an account of disaster, of promise, of frantic adaptation and relentless innovation, of hope, of survival, and of the forces that will define our future.

Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom - For a Market Culture Beyond Greed and Fear (Paperback): Rajni Bakshi Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom - For a Market Culture Beyond Greed and Fear (Paperback)
Rajni Bakshi
R1,175 Discovery Miles 11 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Long before the financial meltdown and the red alert on climate change, some far-sighted innovators diagnosed the fatal flaws in an economic system driven by greed and fear. Across the global North and South, diverse people - financial wizards, economists, business people and social activists - have been challenging the "free market" orthodoxy. They seek to recover the virtues of bazaars from the tyranny of a market model that emerged about two centuries ago. This widely praised book is a chronicle of their achievements. From Wall Street icon George Soros and VISA card designer Dee Hock we get an insider critique of the malaise. Creators of community currencies and others, like the father of microfinance, Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus, explore how money can work differently. The doctrine of self-interest is re-examined by looking more closely at Adam Smith through the eyes of Amartya Sen. Mahatma Gandhi's concept of 'Trusteeship' gathers strength as the socially responsible investing phenomenon challenges the power of capital. Pioneers of the open source and free software movement thrive on cooperation to drive innovation. The Dalai Lama and Ela Bhatt demonstrate that it is possible to compete compassionately and to nurture a more mindful market culture. This sweeping narrative takes you from the ancient Greek agora, Indian choupal, and Native American gift culture, on to present-day Wall Street to illuminate ideas, subversive and prudent, about how the market can serve society rather than being its master. In a world exhausted by dogma, Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom is an open quest for possible futures. This fully updated and revised UK version of the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award winner for non-fiction is a rare and epic narrative about those who have been quietly forging solutions and demonstrating that a more compassionate market culture is both possible and desirable.

UK Economy: The Crisis in Perspective - Essays on the Drivers of Recent UK Economic Performance and Lessons for the Future... UK Economy: The Crisis in Perspective - Essays on the Drivers of Recent UK Economic Performance and Lessons for the Future (Hardcover)
Gabriele Giudice, Robert Kuenzel, Tom Springbett
R3,347 R1,127 Discovery Miles 11 270 Save R2,220 (66%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The global financial crisis, which began in 2007, was probably the biggest shock to hit the UK economy in living memory. Since the beginning of this crisis, much has happened that might previously have been thought impossible: the virtual nationalization of two of the UK s largest banks, a government deficit in double digits, a negative watch on the UK s AAA credit rating, a Bank of England base rate 150 basis points below its previous all-time low, and a 200,000m. programme of quantitative easing. These momentous events have demanded a fundamental reworking of the traditional analysis of the UK economy.

The publication of UK Economy: The Crisis in Perspective meets this need for a radical new analysis of the UK economic system. The book is an edited collection of papers presented to a European Commission seminar held in June 2010 to discuss prospects for the UK economy, the book includes chapters by some of the most prominent and respected commentators on the UK economy, including Christopher Pissarides, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for economics sciences, Martin Weale, recently appointed to the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee and Dave Ramsden, Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury.

The chapters cover:

  • fiscal policy and its impact on growth and wealth distribution
  • monetary policy and the Bank of England's unprecedented stimulus programme
  • a detailed decomposition of the sources of UK growth between 1973 and 2009
  • the structural excess of consumption that fuelled the UK's long boom
  • the UK's labour market performance.

The highly distinguished group of authors, coverage and analysis of issues central to recent UK economic history, along with the European Commission's assessment of UK economic prospects make this essential reading for economists, business and financial people, academics and students, as well for all those interested in the historical background of, and prospects for, the UK economy.

Information in the chapters will be supplemented by a number of charts and tables offering information in graphic form.

The contributors are: Gabriele Giudice, Head of the Unit responsible for the UK, Estonia and Latvia in the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) at the European Commission; Robert Kuenzel, an Economist in DG ECFIN; Thomas Springbett, UK country desk officer in DG ECFIN, responsible for forecasting and surveillance; Christopher Pissarides, professor of economics at the London School of Economics and holder of the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics; Ray Barrell, professor at Brunel University; Philip Davis, senior fellow at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research; Martin Weale, an independent member of the Bank of England s Monetary Policy Committee; Xavier Ramos, associate professor at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona; Dave Ramsden, Managing Director of Macroeconomic and Fiscal Policy at HM Treasury and joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service.

Black Horse Ride - The Inside Story of Lloyds and the Banking Crisis (Paperback): Ivan Fallon Black Horse Ride - The Inside Story of Lloyds and the Banking Crisis (Paperback)
Ivan Fallon
R349 R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Save R84 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Longlisted for the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015. In September 2008, HBOS, with assets larger than Britain's GDP, was on the edge of bankruptcy. Its collapse would have created the biggest economic crisis since the 1930s and a major political disaster for the Labour government. With the help and support of Gordon Brown, HBOS was rescued by Lloyds TSB, one of the country's strongest banks, in circumstances that have since become the stuff of City legend. In the highly acclaimed Black Horse Ride, veteran financial journalist Ivan Fallon brings together the accounts of all the power players involved in this dramatic saga for the first time, including the key roles played by the Governor of the Bank of England, the Prime Minister and the Treasury. Through a compelling cast of prominent bankers, politicians and investors, Fallon reveals what really occurred in the aftermath of the crash of Lehman Brothers, perhaps the worst single day in banking history.

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