The rise and fall of nations

forces of change in the post-crisis world

"Quite simply the best guide to the global economy today."—Fareed Zakaria Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing, tycoons, and presidents, Ruchir Sharma’s The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks the "dismal ...

Crisis económica y Derecho administrativo

una visión general y sectorial de las reformas implantadas con ocasión de la crisis económica

Es una realidad evidente que la crisis económica en la que nos hallamos inmersos desde finales de la pasada década -y de la que parece que no acabamos de salir- está dejando tras sí un profundo rastro de consecuencias en numerosos terrenos, incluido el jurídico ...

Turbocapitalismo

los maestros de la quiebra

Su experiencia como especialista en reestructuración y refinanciación de la deuda, le ha permitido vivir las finanzas internacionales desde dentro, por lo que puede explicar cómo funciona. El autor quiere dejar a nuestros hijos un mundo mejor que en el que estamos y por ello ...

After the crisis

reform, recovery, and growth in Europe

After the Crisis reassesses the twin projects of structural reform and European integration in the wake of the Great Recession and the European Sovereign Debt Crisis. The introduction compares the pre-crises debate to the current situation, and highlights a number of ways in which both ...

Connectedness and contagion

protecting the financial system from panics

The Dodd--Frank Act of 2010 was intended to reform financial policies in order to prevent another massive crisis such as the financial meltdown of 2008. Dodd--Frank is largely premised on the diagnosis that connectedness was the major problem in that crisis -- that is, that financial ...

In defence of Europe

can the european project be saved?

Europe has not been so weak and divided for a long time. Buffeted by a succession of crises, it has shown a strong collective survival instinct but a poor capacity to deliver. In times when the tectonic plates are shifting and tension between global markets ...

Central Banks at a crossroads

what can we learn from history?

Throughout their long history, the primary concern of central banks has oscillated between price stability in normal times and financial stability in extraordinary times. In the wake of the recent global financial crisis, central banks have been given additional responsibilities to ensure financial stability, which ...

Macroeconomic paradigms and economic policy

from the Great Depression to the Great Recession

The recent financial crisis has demonstrated the dangers of ignoring the factors that led to previous crises, and the effectiveness of the policies designed to deal with them. Over time, these macroeconomic policies have evolved, oscillating between state intervention and a free-market approach. Following a ...

La Unión Europea

de la crisis a la unión federal

La aguda crisis financiera de 2007, que tuvo su origen en Estados Unidos, de inmediato se propagó por Europa, y con ella sus graves consecuencias políticas, sociales y económicas. Más que a una crisis cíclica, característica de las economías avanzadas, dio lugar a una gran ...

Inside the banking crisis

the untold story

Since the Lehmans debacle and the bailout of Halifax/Bank of Scotland and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), there has been a Financial Services Authority report on the collapse of RBS but no equivalent enquiry into the drama at HBOS, and no comprehensive investigation into ...

Progress and confusion

the state of macroeconomic policy

What will economic policy look like once the global financial crisis is finally over? Will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or will it be forced to contend with a post-crisis "new normal"? Have we made progress in addressing these issues, or does confusion remain? In ...

Too little, too late

the quest to resolve soverign debt crises

The current approach to resolving sovereign debt crises does not work: sovereign debt restructurings come too late and address too little. Though unresolved debt crises impose enormous costs on societies, many recent restructurings have not been deep enough to provide the conditions for economic recovery ...

Welcome to the poisoned chalice

the destruction of Greece and the future of Europe

The economic crisis in Greece is a potential international disaster and one of the most extraordinary monetary and political dramas of our time. The financial woes of this relatively small European nation threaten the long-term viability of the Euro while exposing the flaws in the ...

50 ans de crises financières

"Ce récit est celui des crises financières que les marchés finissent toujours par infliger à ceux qui ont abusé de leurs innovations, de leurs excès et du laxisme ambiant. Le traitement de ces crises, souvent inventif, a consommé beaucoup plus d'énergie que leur prévention ...

¿Por qué en 2017 volveremos a entrar en recesión?

un análisis de los datos que auguran una nueva recesión y cuándo saldremos de ella

Este libro combina pronósticos y reflexiones, pero también es un balance de previsiones antiguas. Para ello el reputado analista financiero Juan Ignacio Crespo habla de pasado, presente y futuro. En la primera parte repasa las predicciones que hizo para economías y mercados en libros anteriores ...

The incomplete currency

the future of the Euro and solutions for the Eurozone

A fact-based treatise on the Eurozone crisis, with analysis of possible solutions The Incomplete Currency is the only technical yet accessible analysis of the current Eurozone crisis from a global perspective. The discussion begins by explaining how the Euro's architecture, the relationship between finance ...

Hubris

why economists failed to predict the crisis and how to avoid the next one

The failure of economists to anticipate the global financial crisis and mitigate the impact of the ensuing recession has spurred a public outcry. Economists are under fire, but questions concerning exactly how to redeem the discipline remain unanswered. In this provocative book, renowned economist Meghnad ...

Crisis económica e implantación de la sociedad de la información

Países Nórdicos & España

Este libro supone una aproximación coral y un estudio comparado acerca de como la actual crisis económica ha incidido en la implantación de la Sociedad de la Información y el Conocimiento en las dos áreas geopolíticas que se contemplan en este estudio: las sociedades nórdicas ...

La realidad social de España

INDICE: Capítulo I. Las consecuencias sociales de la crisis Capítulo II. El malestar social en España Capítulo III. La economía española ante la globalización Capítulo IV. El envejecimiento del estado del bienestar Capítulo V. Solidaridad y acción social Capítulo VI. El ideal democrático Capítulo VII ...

Makers and takers

the rise of finance and the fall of American business

Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned—and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever. Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking ...