American power after the financial crisis

The global financial crisis of 2007–2008 was both an economic catastrophe and a watershed event in world politics. In American Power after the Financial Crisis, Jonathan Kirshner explains how the crisis altered the international balance of power, affecting the patterns and pulse of world ...

El fracaso de las élites

lecciones y escarmientos de la Gran Crisis

De los desastres de la gran crisis que acabamos de padecer, lo fundamental es sacar las lecciones prácticas que impidan que esta se repita. En el presente libro, el profesor Manuel Sanchís nos ofrece las claves imprescindibles para que España, dentro de la Unión Europea ...

Elites del poder económico en España en 2013

transformaciones en las redes de gobierno empresarial durante la crisis

INDICE: La red de administradores y de consejos de administración. La red de empresas. La red de participaciones en el capital 2013. La red de administradores agrupados por equipos. Algunas ideas y un bosquejo para una construcción de futuro de control sobre el poder.

In the wake of the crisis

leading economists reassess economic policy

In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policymakers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic thinking at a transformational moment. The crisis and the weak recovery ...

Guardians of finance

making regulators work for US

The recent financial crisis was an accident, a "perfect storm" fueled by an unforeseeable confluence of events that unfortunately combined to bring down the global financial systems. Or at least this is the story told and retold by a chorus of luminaries that includes Timothy ...

The great recession

lessons for central bankers

The recent financial crisis shook not only the global economy but also conventional wisdom about economic policy. After the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, policy makers reversed course and acted on an unprecedented scale. The policy response was remarkable both for its magnitude ...

Global capitalism and the crisis of humanity

This exciting new study provides an original and provocative expose of the crisis of global capitalism in its multiple dimensions - economic, political, social, ecological, military, and cultural. Building on his earlier works on globalization, William I. Robinson discusses the nature of the new global capitalism ...

The next economic disaster

why it's coming and how to avoid it

Current debates about economic crises typically focus on the role that public debt and debt-fueled public spending play in economic growth. This illuminating and provocative work shows that it is the rapid expansion of private rather than public debt that constrains growth and sparks economic ...

British financial crises since 1825

This book provides a history of British financial crises since the Napoleonic wars. Interest in crises lapsed during the generally benign financial conditions which followed the Second Word War, but the study of banking markets and financial crises has returned to centre stage following the ...

Economic and financial crisis and collective labour Law in Europe

The current economic and financial crisis erupted several years ago. Its effects impacted deeply upon society, in which legal rules and social patterns have developed to enable the establishment of civilisation, justice and peace. Over time it has become more and more obvious that policy ...

The death of money

the coming collapse of the internacional monetary system

“The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. . . . Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a crossroads, pondering the death of the dollar.” The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the past ...

Europe on the brink

debt crisis and dissent in the european perophery

Europe is suffering from a bipolar economic disorder. Financial journalists divide the continent into two groups of nations - centre and periphery - not by geography but by credit rating. Europe on the Brink is a critical investigation of the root causes of this sovereign debt crisis ...

Europe's path to crisis

disintegration via Monetary Union

The EU's single currency crisis and the ensuing human costs have led to Europe's biggest disaster since 1945. This book examines each of its stages and the political and social impact, and reveals the longer-term origins of the crisis, particularly the failure of ...

La crisis del neoliberalismo

La crisis del neoliberalismo examina «la Gran Contracción» que comenzó en 2007 en el contexto de la globalización neoliberal, a principios de los 80. Desde el modelo americano los autores analizan la última crisis de la historia del capitalismo y reflexionan sobre los diferentes cambios ...

Planeta carroña

la crisis explicada a una ciudadanía estafada

En cada momento de crisis el capitalismo aprovecha para reestructurarse, para volver a buscar los mecanismos económicos y sociales que le permiten rehacerse y sobrevivir unos años más. La crisis está representando una magnífica oportunidad, la excusa perfecta para que los sectores dominantes de la ...

The european debt crisis

the Greek case

In this book, former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis examines the European debt crisis with particular reference to the case of Greece. Greece was the first Eurozone country to face an enormous deficit, which reached 15% of GDP in 2009. As the Greek crisis unfolded ...

Inside the banking crisis

the untold story

It was one of the gravest challenges faced by any British government in peacetime. The banking system, taken for granted by most of the population to pay for life's essentials, came close to collapse. Yet nobody going about their business in October 2008 had ...

39 artículos sobre la crisis y otros pensamientos sobre economía en la actual coyuntura

diciembre 2011-marzo 2014

El autor escribe y analiza, desde su punto de vista como economista y empresario, la gran crisis aparecida en el último trimestre de 2007.

The shifts and the shocks

what we’ve Learned-and have still to Learn-from the financial crisis

We have been inundated with books about the “financial crisis.” Surely, there is little more to be said. Martin Wolf agrees. In fact, he argues, too much has been said about the purely financial aspects of the crisis, important though they are. The underlying problem ...

El vicio del ladrillo

la cultura de un modelo productivo

Esta es la crónica del ascenso de un grupo de promotores que alentó una fenomenal burbuja que se hinchó a lo largo de una década (1997-2007) y del posterior derrumbe de una cultura vinculada a un modelo de negocio que devoró el medio ambiente y ...