Global Financial Meltdown

How We Can Avoid the Next Economic Crisis
2009. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-349-30770-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 257 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

In easy to understand terms and journalistic style, Read describes the reasons for global financial unrest arising from the sub-prime mortgage crisis and economic meltdowns. He walks the reader through a number of topics in economics and connects these topics to real world financial problems concluding with recommendations for the future.

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Research

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Read, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Introduction SECTION I: EVOLUTION OF THE MODERN ECONOMIC SYSTEM SECTION II: CREATION OF THE CONSUMER-INVESTOR SECTION III: AN EMERGING NEW WORLD  SECTION IV: BANKS AND CENTRAL BANKING  SECTION V: FINANCIAL FAILURES  SECTION VI: POLITICS AND PERCEPTIONS  Conclusions Epilogue Index

Über Autor(innen)

COLIN READ has a Ph.D. in Economics, a law degree, and master's degree in business and in taxation. He has taught economics and finance for twenty five years, and is currently Dean of a school of business and economics in New York, USA. He has recently published a book on International Taxation, and appears regularly on a local PBS show on economic development, and is a prolific writer on a variety of economic issues.