La gran crisis: cambios y consecuencias

lo que hemos aprendido y lo que todavía nos queda por aprender de la crisis financiera

En La gran crisis: cambios y consecuencias, Martín Wolf presenta su controvertido y original análisis del curso económico de los últimos siete años. Muchos son los libros que han tratado de explicar las causas y el desarrollo de la crisis financiera y económica que se ...

Wasting a crisis

why securities regulation fails

The recent financial crisis led to sweeping reforms that inspired countless references to the financial reforms of the New Deal. Comparable to the reforms of the New Deal in both scope and scale, the 2,300 - page Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 - the main regulatory reform ...

Business cycle economics

understanding recessions and depressions from boom to bust

Despite more than two centuries of debate, a definitive explanation of the causes of economic cycles still does not exist. Economists, politicians, and policymakers have argued many well-known theories as to why these peaks and slumps occur, and cyclical recessions and depressions continue in spite ...

Austerity

the great failure

Austerity is at the center of political debates today. Its defenders praise it as a panacea that will prepare the ground for future growth and stability. Critics insist it will precipitate a vicious cycle of economic decline, possibly leading to political collapse. But the notion ...

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 ...

The Lion wakes

a modern history of HSBC

The Lion Wakes tells the modern story of HSBC, starting in the late 1970s, when the bank first broke out of the Asia-Pacific region with its purchase of Marine Midland Bank in the US. It follows HSBC's battle to purchase Midland Bank in1992, the ...

Finance and Law

twins in trouble

From the start of the financial crisis in 2007, which turned into an economic crisis soon afterwards, it was obvious that public law could not prevent the genesis of this crisis although it has adequate instruments to make a reoccurrence of such a crisis unlikely ...

Building responsive and responsible financial regulators in the aftermath of the global financial crisis

The global financial crisis that started in 2007 sparked several academic debates about the role that financial sector regulators played in the crisis and prompted policy reforms in the financial supervision architectures of several countries. This book focuses on the question of what accountability, independence ...

Masters of the universe, slaves of the market

This account of the financial crisis of 2008 2009 compares banking systems in the United States and the United Kingdom to those of Canada and Australia and explains why the system imploded in the former but not the latter. Central to this analysis are differences ...

Bancarota moral

violencia político-financiera y resiliencia ciudadana

Hay numerosos estudios sobre la crisis que se inicióen el 2008 y sus efectos empobrecedores sobre amplios sectores de la población mundial. ¿Qué aporta el que ahora tiene en sus manos? En lo esencial, un cambio de perspectiva y una puerta a la ilusión. Bancarrota ...

"No tenemos sueños baratos"

una historia cultural de la crisis

Entre los cambios sobrevenidos con motivo de la crisis financiera global figura en lugar destacado uno que ha quedado en la penumbra: la dificultad para buena parte de la población de leer e interpretar los hilos de la trama narrativa que se invoca para justificar ...

Social movements in times of austerity

bringing capitalism back into protest analysis

Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very civil, political and social rights that form the basis of democratic life. Beginning with Iceland in ...

Capitalismo en recesión

la crisis en el centro y la periferia de la economía mundial

Este libro trata de analizar una de las grandes crisis del sistema capitalista a partir de los fundamentos del enfoque marxista. Mientras que los economistas ortodoxos, que son los que en mayor medida tienen acceso a los medios de comunicación, explican la crisis económica a ...

Brexit

how Britain will leave Europe

Will Britain leave the EU? In recent months, commentators have begun to talk seriously about the possibility of 'Brexit' - British Exit from the EU. In this book, former Europe minister Denis MacShane looks at the history of Britain's fraught relationship with Europe and shows ...

Unhappy union

how the euro crisis, and Europe, can be fixed

The euro was supposed to create an unbreakable bond between the nations and people of Europe. But when the debt crisis struck, the flaws of the half-built currency brought the European Union close to breaking point after decades of post-war integration. Deep fault-lines have opened ...

Inside the FDIC

thirty years of bank failures, bailouts, and regulatory battles

Witness how the FDIC manages your money during financial crises Inside the FDIC tells the real stories behind bank failures and financial crises to provide a direct account of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and other bank regulators. Author John Bovenzi served in senior level ...

Stateness and sovereign debt

Greece in the european conundrum

This book examines the present crisis of Greece's political economy as a crisis of stateness, tackling the domestic as well as the international dimensions. It represents the first attempt by Greek academics to put forward a theoretically-informed, interdisciplinary analysis of Greece's fiscal, economic ...

Atlas de la crisis

impactos socioeconómicos y territorios vulnerables en España

La crisis se ha convertido en escenario inevitable para comprender los profundos cambios experimentados por la economía y la sociedad españolas en los últimos años, con evidentes repercusiones en el ámbito político. Pero la crisis tiene también una dimensión geográfica mucho menos conocida aunque no ...

La protección de las personas en situación de dependencia durante la primera gran crisis económica del siglo XXI

En 2006 se publicó la Ley 39/2006, de 14 de diciembre, con el objetivo de conseguir la atención a las personas en situación de dependencia y la promoción de su autonomía personal, reconociéndose por primera vez derechos a las personas sin autonomía vital propia ...

Fiasco financiero

cómo la obsesión de los americanos por la propiedad inmobiliaria y el dinero fácil causó la crisis económica

¿Cómo es posible que en un mundo donde miles de personas regulaban los mercados financieros el sistema entero cayera? ¿Deberíamos ahora dar un mayor poder a los bancos centrales, agencias gubernamentales y demás organismos reguladores? ¿No es todo ello lo que nos llevó hasta la ...