Over the years, some GBP3 trillion has been taken from us by the ruling elites. Half was wasted in a splurge of poorly-managed public spending in the 'boom', while the other half evaporated in the 'bust'. This title charts the greatest impoverishment and tax swindle of the public in British history.

An accessible, compelling and authoritative account of the financial destruction of Iceland

One of the world's biggest and most successful banks, Lehman Brothers bank's downfall was the event that sparked the slide of the world economy toward a Great Depression II. This title presents the inside story of the dark characters who ruled Lehman and the crash that didn't have to happen.

BBC Business Editor Robert Peston lifts the lid on credit crunch Britain and the rise of the super-rich.

A story of how one man, one bank and one country experienced and affected the course of world economic history. It tells how Armann Thorvaldsson, a former CEO at Kaupthing in the UK and his company was transformed into a GBP6 billion international bank.

Explains the causes of the world economic crisis and how we should respond to the challenges it brings. This book urges readers to resist the siren voices that promote isolationism and nationalism as the answer to economic woes.

A personal account of 21st century banking excess. It reveals how a young Oxford graduate finds himself in command of vast sums of other people's money.

From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, Russia and the corridors of Washington, this title tells the story of some of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego, greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world's economy.

Examining the global cost of the worst economic crisis in nearly a century The year 2008 will always be remembered as one of the darkest, most tumultuous years the banking industry ever experienced. It was the year that the US financial system came to a total collapse, bringing down the world economy with it. In The Meltdown Years, Financial Times writer and renowned prognosticator Wolfgang ...

In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval since the Great Depression, this title explores the origins of the crisis and its implications for the future. It places the crisis in the context of decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom and bust cycles that dominate global economic activity.

The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America.

For all of the technical explanations for meltdown in the financial markets during the banking crisis, the most readily accepted and almost universal explanation is the single word 'greed'. This is a subject which can at once be seen as the disease at the heart of society and the motivating force behind the progress of mankind.

Investors and citizens around the world are realizing they were all misled - lied to - about the stability of the US financial system. This work aims to expose the lies and then expose us all to the truth of what it will take to rebuild the US economy.

Considers the social and economic damage wrought by neo-liberalism - in Britain and beyond. This work analyses the effects of the inequalities of income and wealth, and concludes that a range of problems for the middle sections of society can be traced to the appearance of a class of the uber-rich, the example they set and the demands they make.

This is a unique insider account of the new world of unfettered finance.

This is a unique insider account of the new world of unfettered finance.

An annual effort by the economists at the Nanyang Technological University to provide analysis, interpretations and insights of contemporary economic issues affecting Singapore and Asia. It covers two key themes: Global Financial Tsunami and other economic issues affecting Singapore and Asia.

The 1997 Asian Crisis and 9/11 were the two events reminded the Western World of the dynamic impacts of globalisation and the increased uncertainty the world was facing. This book examines the threats to the world economy arising in the wake of the tragedy of 11th September 2001 and the preceding Asian financial crisis of 1997.

Tells the story of the financial crash that destroyed West's investment banks, brought the global economy to its knees, and undermined neoliberal orthodoxy. This book explores the roots of the US and UK's financial hubris, documenting the real-world causes and consequences from the Ford factory, to Wall Street, to the City of London.

Through the prism of Bear Stearns - a swashbuckling eighty-five-year-old institution in the financial world - this title shows how a combination of risky bets, corporate political infighting, lax government regulations and truly bad decision-making have wrought havoc on the world financial system.