This volume examines issues of economic interest faced by Latin America economies in the late Twentieth-century. The fifteen chapters deal with macroeconomic problems, financial crises, the development of trade and trade agreements and labour issues. Of particular interest are the chapters...

This book critically analyses the crisis of the euro currency from 2008 to the present. It argues that an understanding of this crisis requires an understanding of financial and economic crises in individual countries participating in the euro. It goes on to describe and explain the crises in...

Stiglitz brings together this edited collection that presents a series of studies on contemporary macroeconomic issues and contains a set of key lessons for macroeconomic theory and policies from the recent global financial crisis

Over the past two years, the world has been preoccupied with the Asia crisis, its contagion and its economic impact. The social dimension of the turmoil has only recently become the point of focus for debates and investigations by national and international organizations. This book is the first...

Wirtschaftspolitik und Krisenpolitik -- Ankurbelung Durch Kreditausweitung -- Arbeitsbeschaffung Durch Investitionen -- Verkürzung der Arbeitszeit -- Senkung der Produktionskosten -- Erleichterung der Schuldenlast -- Innenkolonisation und Naturalwirtschaft -- Autarkisierung -- Abbau der...

Darstellung der Krisen -- Beschreibung der Unsicherheit -- Geldpolitische Maßnahmen und ihre Wirkungen -- Fiskalpolitik -- Arbeitsmarktpolitik -- Ein abgestimmtes Konzept zur Krisenbekämpfung -- Folgen für die Wirtschaftspolitik.

This book concentrates on exchange rates and their macroeconomic consequences, analytical and empirical issues relating to currency crises and policy responses and monetary and financial cooperation in Asia. It is truely pan-Asia-focused with chapters on China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast...

The risk process commonly used in the corporate world to deal with risks may be suitable for non-catastrophic events, but not for extreme events. By analyzing a series of past disasters and the relevant 'lessons learned', this books proposes a series of prescriptive measures to cope with future...