What did the global food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008-11 mean to people living in the developing world? How did people cope with the crisis and how effective were they at averting major impacts? These are the questions addressed by this book, which emerged out of qualitative crisis...

The Times They Are Changing? Crisis and the Welfare State presents a series of readings from international policy researchers that examine the effects of the recent financial crisis on welfare states around the world. Provides comprehensive and in depth coverage of changes in welfare states as a...

How does America manage crisis on behalf of international finance in the absence of a global state? Doyran explores the relationship between state power and global finance and in particular examines the various attempts by the US state at financial crisis management. The case studies highlight...

Inhalt / Contents -- Guest Editorial -- Abhandlungen / Original Papers -- International Investment and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Small Open Economies -- Redirecting International Trade: Contracts, Conflicts, and Institutions -- How Did the Economic Crisis Influence New Firm...

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Historical Context: The Export of Capital and Sovereign Debt Crises, 1815-1914 -- Part I: External Financing During the Interwar Period and the Great Depression, 1919-39 -- Private...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Depressions and Working-Class Lives -- 1. Marching under Flags Black and Red: Toronto's Dispossessed in the Age of Industry Gaetan Heroux a -- 2. Working People's Responses to Past Depressions David Montgomery -- 3....

Front Cover -- Copyright Page -- Dynamics of Financial Stress and Economic Performance: Insights and Analysis from the World Economy -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1. Importance of the Study -- 1.2. Brief Literature...

Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King's Fed Power is the first sustained examination of the Fed as a potent political institution that systematically provides concealed advantages to a privileged few. The authors trace the Fed's historic development from the fiery tug-of-war over monetary policy...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1. Global Capital Flows to East Asia: Surges and Reversals -- 2. The Role of Mutual funds and Other International Investors in Currency Crises -- 3. International Bank Lending and the East Asian Crisis -- 4. Foreign Capital...