Moderar extremistán

sobre el futuro del capitalismo en la crisis civilizatoria

Las dinámicas económicas y culturales que conforman el mundo contemporáneo se tornan cada vez más extremas y complejas, quedando en demasiadas ocasiones fuera de control. En Moderar extremistán Jorge Riechmann indaga sobre la necesidad de redimensionar fenómenos como lo económico o lo social hacia una ...

Nunca dejes que una crisis te gane la partida

¿cómo ha conseguido el neoliberalismo, responsable de la crisis, salir indemne de la misma?

La crisis económica que hemos padecido estos últimos años ha causado estragos entre las clases medias y bajas, y ha disparado los índices de desigualdad. No obstante, no se ha hecho nada para evitar que en un futuro las causas que nos llevaron a la ...

The system worked

how the world stopped another great depression

Global governance institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic Committee, are little loved. They are perceived as bastions of sclerotic mediocrity at best and outright corruption at worst, and this perception is generally not far off the mark. In the wake of ...

Paper money collapse

the folly of elastic money

Explore the inevitable collapse of the fiat monetary system Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money, Second Edition challenges the mainstream consensus on money and monetary policy. While it is today generally believed that the transition from 'hard' and inflexible commodity money (such as ...

Banking in crisis

the rise and fall of british banking stability, 1800 to the present

Can the lessons of the past help us to prevent another banking collapse in the future? This is the first book to tell the story of the rise and fall of British banking stability over the past two centuries, shedding new light on why banking ...

Rethinking housing bubbles

the role of household and bank balance sheets in modeling economic cycles

In this highly original piece of work, Steven D. Gjerstad and Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith analyze the role of housing and its associated mortgage financing as a key element of economic cycles. The authors combine data from both laboratory and real markets to provide ...

The IMF and global financial crises

Phoenix rising?

The IMF's response to the global crisis of 2008-9 marked a significant change from its past policies. The Fund provided relatively large amounts of credit quickly with limited conditions and accepted the use of capital controls. This book traces the evolution of the IMF ...

Cambios en las características de los inmigrantes durante la crisis económica

Este libro presenta datos y opiniones que son producto de varios años de trabajo del Taller de Investigación del Colegio de Politólogos y Sociólogos de Madrid, que proceden fundamentalmente del programa de intermediación laboral AFILIA. Una cuestión clave es el enfoque en un determinado perfil ...

Los retos jurídicos ante la crisis

La crisis económica global originada en el ámbito de las finanzas hace casi siete años está teniendo un gran impacto en la economía de muchos países. Las cuestiones macro económicas han ocupado mucho espacio en los medios de comunicación, pero no ha sido hasta más ...

Crisis y política económica en España

un análisis de la política económica actual

A finales del año 2011 el Partido Popular llegó al gobierno de España y a partir de ese momento se prometió realizar una política económica de nuevo cuño para hacer frente a los problemas de la crisis económica en el país. Dos años después este ...

Bad banks

mistakes, misselling, misbehaviour and the next global crisis

Bad Banks is a gripping account of the problems and scandals that continue to bedevil the world's banking system some seven years after the credit crunch. It follows the fortunes and misfortunes of individual banks, from RBS to Lloyds. It exposes instances of mis-selling ...

La política monetaria tras la Gran Recesión

(Revista Papeles de Economía, Nº140, año 2014)

INDICE: I. Las políticas monetarias de los principales bancos centrales. II. Semejanzas y diferencias entre los países y entre las políticas. III. Riesgos e interacciones con otras políticas. IV. La recuperación económica y los retos en la zona del euro.

Financial innovation, regulation and crises in History

With present concerns over the regulation of the banking industry continuing to make headlines, an examination of the historiography of financial crises is timely. With contributions from world-renowned figures such as Niall Ferguson, Adair Turner and William R White, this volume investigates how financial institutions ...

The Euro trap

on bursting bubbles, budgets, and beliefs

This book offers a critical assessment of the history of the euro, its crisis, and the rescue measures taken by the European Central Bank and the community of states. The euro induced huge capital flows from the northern to the southern countries of the Eurozone ...

Crisis without end?

the unravelling of western prosperity

The 2008 crash was no ordinary crisis, but the harbinger of a much deeper convulsion. This major re-assessment shows how it was initially contained but that the more fundamental challenges to western leadership, democracy and prosperity, unless addressed, will preclude sustained recovery and pave the ...

The sovereign debt crisis

placing a curb on growth

The Sovereign Debt Crisis, 2012 edition, looked at how governments ran up substantial deficits in order to avert a worldwide depression and their subsequent attempts to rebalance their budgets. This updated edition concentrates on the delicate balancing act the economies of the United States, Japan ...

Crisis y fracaso de la Unión Europea neoliberal

La crisis económica que está sacudiendo la Unión Europea ha puesto de relieve la profunda inconsistencia de la arquitectura institucional comunitaria, y muy especialmente del euro, del BCE y del Pacto de Estabilidad y Crecimiento. La deriva de la crisis financiera hacia la crisis de ...

Breaking banks

the innovators, rogues, and strategists rebooting banking

Insights from the strategists at the heart of the banking revolution Breaking Banks: The Innovators, Rogues, and Strategists Rebooting Banking provides a true insider's perspective on the massive upheaval facing the banking industry today. Taken from the first season of the popular radio show ...

The watchdog that didn't bark

the financial crisis and the disappearance of investigative journalism

In this sweeping, incisive post mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. He locates the roots of the problem in the origin of ...

Central Counterparties

mandatory central clearing and initial margin requirements for OTC derivatives

The Global Financial Crisis, from 2007 onwards, illustrated the inherent weaknesses in the global financial system and some of their causes. In particular over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives were blamed by many for partially causing and catalysing the crisis. Not surprisingly, this has led to dramatic action ...