1. The Role of Finance in Achieving Sustainability -- 2. The Value and Limits of Financial Accounting -- 3. Financial Markets and Pricing -- 4. Discounting and Cost-Benefit Analysis -- 5. The Value of Environmental Accounting in Public Decision Making -- 6. The Monetization of Natural Capital in...

1. Introduction - Not Managed at All: How the Idea for this Book Occurred and What it is About -- 2. The Medici and Renaissance Complexity: How the Challenges of Renaissance Banking Finally Defeated the First Multinational Bank -- 3. Rothschild, the Largest Bank in the World: How Multinational...

Part I: A History of Banking -- 1.A brief history of money and credit -- 2.Banking in the 20th Century -- Part II: How Banking Works -- 3.Money and Inflation -- 4.Money and Banking -- 5.Banking and the economy -- 6.Investment Banking -- 7.Banking in Crisis -- 8.Financial Instability -- Part III:...

PART I: GENERAL ASPECTS -- Chapter 1: Sustainable Finance in Europe: Setting the Scene; Danny Busch, Guido Ferrarini & Seraina Grünewald -- Chapter 2 : The European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan and Other International Initiatives; Danny Busch, Guido Ferrarini & Arthur van den...

1. From the Great Depression to the Great Recession -- 2. Causes of the US subprime mortgage crisis -- 3. The crisis spreads to Europe -- 4. Why the European sovereign debt crisis has lasted so long -- 5. US fiscal and monetary policy to cope with the Great Recession -- 6. The role of Germany in...

pt. 1. Re-embedding the financial crisis in its cultural milieu -- pt. 2. Shifting paradigms, shifting scopes : beyond the national crisis -- pt. 3. Disruptive and creative agency : the dynamics of cultural resilience and renewal.

Financial models are an inescapable feature of modern financial markets. Yet it was over reliance on these models and the failure to test them properly that is now widely recognized as one of the main causes of the financial crisis of 2007-2011. Since this crisis, there has been an increase in...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Preface -- Part One. Setting the Stage -- Part Two. Building Blocks -- Part Three. Inadequate Institutions -- Part Four. Currency Competition -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index