Hard times

economic depressions in America

Hard Times presents a comprehensive account of economic depressions in America, from colonial times to the "great recession" that began in 2008. Written in crisp prose for a general audience, the book synthesizes a narrative account-presenting the known facts about how particular depressions started, the ...

Beyond debt

islamic experiments in global finance

Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. This realization has led to cries for change-yet there is little popular awareness of possible alternatives. Beyond Debt describes efforts to create a transnational economy free of debt. Based ...

Fighting financial crises

learning from the past

If you've got some money in the bank, chances are you've never seriously worried about not being able to withdraw it. But there was a time in the United States, an era that ended just over a hundred years ago, in which bank ...

Los economistas y la crisis financiera (2007-2008)

Antonio Torrero Mañas comienza su carrera profesional en MAPFRE Mutualidad de Seguros, donde ocupó cargos directivos en sociedades de inversión. Ha sido Consejero Delegado de AGECO (Asesoramiento y Gestión Económica), Presidente del Banco Hipotecario de España, Presidente de Reit S. A., Consejero del Instituto Nacional ...

Big debt crises

principles for navigating

For the 10th anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, one of the world's most successful investors, Ray Dalio, shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well. This template allowed his firm, Bridgewater Associates, to anticipate events ...

La crisis de la eurozona

la brecha entre el norte y el sur de Europa

Tras décadas de un proyecto unitario, las grietas en la geografía de la Unión Europea son cada vez más evidentes. Mientras que en el corazón del continente se trazan las líneas maestras de la política económica actual, lospaíses de la periferia se sienten perjudicados y ...

La crisis de la Eurozona

¿una crisis autoinfligida?

La Eurozona atraviesa uno de los momentos más críticos desde su creación en 1999. La crisis de 2008 hizo aflorar todas sus debilidades y carencias, poniendo en riesgo su futuro. En "La crisis de la Eurozona. ¿Una crisis autoinfligida?", Guillermo de la Dehesa hace un ...

Se vende banco por 1€

un análisis sencillo y certero de la crisis bancaria en España

¿Puede comprarse un banco, con un valor de miles de millones, por un euro? ¿Qué provocó realmente la caída de Bankia? ¿Cuáles fueron los verdaderos motivos de la «fuga» de los bancos catalanes en octubre de 2017? «Los casos sonados de corrupción donde las cajas ...

La telaraña financiera

una geografía de la financiación y su crisis

Desde hace cuatro décadas el mundo vive un período de desmesura financiera que condujo a la Gran Recesión de 2007-2008 y que, con ligeros ajustes, persiste hasta la actualidad. Al poder de los grandes bancos sistémicos y de otros inversores institucionales se une el crecimiento ...

Democracy against domination

The 2008 collapse of the US financial system plunged the economy into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, raising deep moral and institutional questions about the problems of economic inequality and economic power on the one hand, and the tensions between democracy and ...

Prosperity for all

how to prevent financial crises

In this important and provocative reassessment of the causes and consequences of economic downturns and stagnation, Roger Farmer argues that the central problem is recurring and debilitating crises of confidence in the stock market. The instability caused by the animal spirits creates unemployment and disruptions ...

Cracking the emerging markets enigma

Forward-thinking investors are constantly looking for the next BRIC-what foreign market is on the brink of expansive growth? Will these investments payoff, or are the potential risks too great? Investing in these emerging markets requires a careful analysis of potential risks and benefits which vary ...

Mastering the market cycle

getting the odds on your side

A NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER The legendary investor shows how to identify and master the cycles that govern the markets. We all know markets rise and fall, but when should you pull out, and when should you stay in ...

The return of trust?

institutions and the public after the icelandic financial crisis

Trust is the fundamental facilitator between actors in society, yet the past decade has seen the public openly question through demonstrations and elections whether business and political institutions deserve the trust society has placed in them-or whether the common person has been abandoned in favour ...

El libro negro

La crisis de Bankia y Las Cajas. Cómo falló el Banco de España a los ciudadanos

La crisis de las entidades financieras en España llevó a conceder ayudas públicas para «salvar» el sistema financiero que se han cifrado, oficialmente, en 122 000 millones de euros. Una cantidad más ajustada a la realidad del respaldo público a entidades privadas es la de ...

En defensa de la vivienda

Todas las personas necesitan y merecen alojamiento. Pero hoy nuestros hogares se están transformando en mercancías, haciendo que las desigualdades de la ciudad sean cada vez más agudas. El beneficio se ha vuelto más importante que la necesidad social. Los pobres se ven obligados a ...

La crisis de lo real

representaciones de la crisis financiera de 2008 en el audiovisual contemporáneo

La disrupción que -todavía hoy- supone la crisis financiera de 2008 ha atravesado irremediablemente múltiples expresiones culturales contemporáneas dando lugar a determinados gestos que, desde sus dimensiones estéticas, narrativas, o del ámbito de la producción, dan cuenta de la profunda huella que el hundimiento económico ...

Why can't you afford a home?

While wages and incomes continue to stagnate for the majority, house prices and rents remain staggeringly high. For millions of people, particularly millennials, the basic goal of acquiring decent, affordable accommodation is a distant dream. In this book, economist Josh-Ryan Collins argues that to understand ...

The Euro and the battle of ideas

Why is Europe's great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble? A string of economic difficulties in Eurozone nations has left observers wondering whether the currency union can survive. In this book, Markus Brunnermeier, Harold James, and Jean-Pierre Landau argue that the core problem with ...

A crisis of beliefs

investor psychology and financial fragility

How investor expectations move markets and the economy The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescue other financial institutions from a similar fate after Lehman, it could not prevent the deepest recession in ...