East Asia in the wake of the financial crisis / Andrew MacIntyre, T.J. Pempel, and John Ravenhill -- After the fall : East Asian exchange rates since the crisis / Benjamin J. Cohen -- Banking systems a decade after the crisis / Natasha Hamilton-Hart -- Containing the oligarchs : the politics of...

The expert contributors--both Asian and Western--illustrate that as G20 members, many Asian countries are now able to showcase their increasing powers and influence on global issues. Within this context, and via multidisciplinary economic and political science perspectives, the book deals with...

"There have been two global financial crises in the past century: the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession that began in 2008. Both featured loose credit, precarious real estate and stock market bubbles, suspicious banking practices, an inflexible monetary system, and global...