Verdict on the crash

causes and policy implications

Ed. Philip Booth. This book challenges the myth that the recent banking crisis was caused by insufficient statutory regulation of financial markets. Though it finds that statutory regulation failed, and that market participants took more risks than they should have done, it appears that statutory ...

Ensayos de persuasión

La obra Ensayos de persuasión, que pronto adquirió forma e identidad propias, se consideró como una reunión de escritos dirigidos a una audiencia popular; además, contribuiría a otorgar a Keynes la notoriedad entre el público general que ya poseía entre los economistas. John Maynard Keynes ...

Engineering a financial bloodbath

how sub-prime securitization destroyed the legitimacy of financial capitalism

In July 2007, the then chief executive of Citigroup, Charles Prince, captured the hubris of a market dangerously addicted to debt: 'when the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as music is playing, you have got to get ...

$700 billion bailout

the emergency economic stabilization act an what it means to you, your money, your mortgage, and your taxes

The book is an analysis of the controversial $700 Billion Bailout bill and explains in easy to understand language for individuals what the bailout bill means. "$700 Billion Bailout" answers questions such as: What is the bailout office? How will the $700 billion be regulated ...

No way to run an economy

why the system failed and how to put it right

In "The Credit Crunch", Graham Turner predicted that banks would be nationalised and interest rates would be reduced too slowly to halt the crisis. His predictions were correct. His new book, "No Way to Run an Economy", is the essential guide to the turbulent times ...

The rise and fall of the U.S. mortgage and credit markets

a comprehensive analysis of the market meltdown

The mortgage meltdown: what went wrong and how do we fix it? Owning a home can bestow a sense of security and independence. But today, in a cruel twist, many Americans now regard their homes as a source of worry and dashed expectations. How did ...

And then the roof caved in

how Wall Street´s greed and stupidity brought capitalism to its knees

CNBC's David Faber takes an in-depth look at the causes and consequences of the recent financial collapse. "And Then the Roof Caved In" lays bare the truth of the credit crisis, whose defining emotion at every turn has been greed, and whose defining failure ...

Why Iceland?

how one of the world's smallest countries became the meltdown's biggest casualty

The reasons behind Iceland's decline--and what it now means for the rest of the world How did a nation of 300,000 build an international banking empire of assets equaling 12 times its GDP-- and then lose it all overnight? sgeir Jonsson, head of ...

The new empire of debet

the rise and fall of an epic financial bubble

This title offers an updated look at the United States' precarious position given the recent financial turmoil. In "The New Empire of Debt", financial writers Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin return to reveal how the financial crisis that has plagued the United States will soon ...

El porqué de las crisis financieras y cómo evitarlas

Este libro analiza las causas que han provocado una crisis tan profunda como la de las hipotecas. Según el autor, el liberalismo acepta gustosamente de las crisis que aceptan a los dominados y sólo se conmueve con las que golpean a sus élites

Financial reckoning day fallout

surviving today's global depression

This is an informative look at surviving a modern market meltdown. When the first edition of "Financial Reckoning Day" was published more than six years ago, many critics felt that maverick financial writers Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin were overly critical of the United States ...

La crisis económica, 1929-1939

Traducción de Lluís Argemí D´Abadal; Epílogo de Lloyd C. Gardner. Esta obra de Charles P. Kindleberger, profesor de economía del Massachusetts Institute of Tecnnology (MIT) y uno de los más destacados historiadores de la economía del siglo xx, es considerada universalmente como el mejor estudio ...

Bubbles, booms and busts

the rise and fall of financial assets

This book provides a thorough explanation of the nature and history of booms, bubbles and busts in financial markets. The first part of the book deals with financial booms and bubbles and how they emerge, develop and collapse. It describes the distribution of wealth, inflation ...

El lado oscuro de la economía

lo que no quieren que sepas sobre la crisis

¿Es la economía una materia esotérica, sofisticada e incomprensible? El autor rechaza esa creencia y aboga por la divulgación y el conocimiento de la ciencia económica como método fundamental para solucionar el colosal desorden en el que estamos metidos. Una aportación brillante e inteligente al ...

Capitalism without capital

Capitalism Without Capital explores the events which took place in the financial markets from September 2008 to March 2009, including the dramatic 'historical week' at Wall Street of September 11, 2008. This book follows on the heels of another book by Dimitris N. Chorafas, Financial ...

In fed we trust

Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic

This breakout book on the financial crisis is Pulitzer Prize-winner Wessel's inside account of the struggle of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his financial firefighters to keep the Great Panic from becoming the next Great Depression.

Foreclosure nation

mortgaging the american dream

The family residence is the backbone of the American economy, the most valuable and enduring asset for those who have achieved a financial foothold. Yet today record numbers of households confront foreclosure. In the next year it is estimated that over two million Americans will ...

This time is different

eight centuries of financial folly

Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different"--claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new ...

Crisis capitalista y economía solidaria

El estallido de la crisis deja a la vista que la autorregulación del mercado es un mito y que el capitalismo, además de generar desigualdad y ser ecológicamente insostenible, resulta intrínsecamente inestable e ineficiente. Al mismo tiempo asistimos a la expansión de iniciativas económicas distintas ...

Dynamic general equilibrium modeling

computational methods and applications

Modern business cycle theory and growth theory uses stochastic dynamic general equilibrium models. In order to solve these models, economists need to use many mathematical tools. This book presents various methods in order to compute the dynamics of general equilibrium models. In part I, the ...