UNCTAD. The Global Economic Crisis: Systemic Failures and Multilateral Remedies

Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 1999. The author originally decided to write this book because of his dissatisfaction with the typical textbooks in international economics, macroeconomics, and the related subjects that he teaches. These textbooks do not present the major structural changes and recent events in the global economy to his satisfaction; insufficient attention is typically given to financial market globalization, new trade patterns,...

Peterson Institute for Internal Economics, 2010. - 256 pages. The second book from The Russia Balance Sheet Project, a collaboration of two of the world's preeminent research institutions-the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Strategic and International Studies-examines Russia after the financial crisis of 2007-2009. In the aftermath of the crisis, what is Russia's current economic status and role in the world ord...

John Wiley & Sons, 2010. - 464 pages. Where everyone today has an opinion on everything, much of it gleaned from a blog, Bud Conrad's constant mantra is 'What does the data say?' And then he rolls up his sleeves and works almost around the clock for as many days as it takes to get to a defensible answer. In other words, there are those who talk, and those who do. Bud does. In Profiting from the World's Economic Crisis, Bud tells you what th...

Bloomberg Press, 2006. - 326 pages. With typical Economist style and clarity, Economist Economics provides accessible and expert analysis that shows how to make sense of the modern economy. Substantially revised from the successful first edition, the book offers an in-depth examination of different aspects of the modern economy. Aimed at those in business, it is organized in four parts: - The Global Economy, which looks at global balances, Chi...

Bеrrett-Koеhler Рublishers, 2009. - 196 pages. Today's economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression. However, as David Korten shows, the steps being taken to address it do nothing to deal with the reality of a failed economic system. It's like treating cancer with a bandage. Korten identifies the deeper sources of the failure: Wall Street institutions that have perfected the art of creating "wealth" without producing anything of real...

W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. - 361 pages. An incisive look at the global economic crisis, our flawed response, and the implications for the world’s future prosperity. The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depression. Flawed government policy and unscrupulous personal and corporate behavior in the United States created the current financial meltdown, which was exp...

The New Press, 2010. - 240 pages. The fact that our global economy is broken may be widely accepted, but what precisely needs to be fixed has become the subject of enormous controversy. In 2008, the president of the United Nations General Assembly convened an international panel, chaired by Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and including twenty leading international experts on the international monetary system, to address this cruci...

United Nations, 2009. - 100 Pages. Contents. Acronyms. Overview. A crisis across the regions. All regions have suffered declines in growth. Despite banking sector rescue plans, risks remain. Falling equity prices. Capital flows have been drying up. Sharp falls in commodity prices. Contracting global trade. Rising protectionism. Rising unemployment, increasing poverty. Expansionary monetary and banking policies. Combating recession w...

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2008. - 27 pages. High food prices from 2007 through mid-2008 had serious implications for food and nutrition security, macroeconomic stability,and political security. The unfolding global financial crisis and economic slowdown have now pushed food prices to lower levels. Yet the financial crunch has also decreased the availability of capital at a time when accelerated investment in agricult...

World Bank, 2010. - 184 pages. This report explores both the short - and medium-term impacts of the financial crisis on developing countries. It presents evidence that the financial boom played a critical role in the growth boom experienced by developing countries between 2003 and 2007, but that tighter conditions in the future are expected to result in weaker growth over the next 5 to 15 years. Although global growth has resumed, the recovery...