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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “timothy j sinclair”
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  • To the Brink of Destruction

    America's Rating Agencies and Financial Crisis

    by Timothy J. Sinclair ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Money
    To the Brink of Destruction exposes how America's rating agencies helped generate the global financial crisis of 2007 and beyond, surviving and thriving in the aftermath. Despite widespread scrutiny, rating agencies continued to operate on the same business model and wield extraordinary power, exerting extensive influence over public policy.Timothy J. Sinclair brings the shadowy corners of this ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Problem with Banks

    by Lena Rethel, Timothy J. Sinclair ...
    Banks of all sorts are troubled institutions. The cost of public bail-outs associated with the subprime crisis in the United States alone may be as high as US$5 trillion. What is the problem with banks? Why do they seem to be at the centre of economic and financial turmoil down through the ages? In this provocative and timely book, Rethel and Sinclair seek answers to these questions, arguing that ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The New Masters of Capital

    American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness

    by Timothy J. Sinclair ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    In The New Masters of Capital, Timothy J. Sinclair examines a key aspect of the global economy—the rating agencies. In the global economy, trust is formalized in the daily operations of such firms as Moody's and Standard & Poor's, which continuously monitor the financial health of bond-issuers ranging from private corporations to local and national governments. Their judgments affect unimaginably ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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  • Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us

    by John Quiggin ...
    In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream economics, and their influence created a system where an unthinking faith in markets led many to view ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Charles P. Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes

    A History of Financial Crises

    by Nicholas Burton ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Perhaps the most peculiar feature of a financial bubble – one that Charles Kindleberger's classic work Manias, Panics and Crashes draws particular attention to – is the inability of those trapped inside it to grasp the seriousness of their predicament. They know in principle that bubbles exist, and they know that the financial crashes that result from them are capable of destroying individuals' ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Ethics and Finance

    An Introduction

    by John Hendry ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Ethics and Finance: An Introduction provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ethical issues raised by modern finance. Drawing carefully on ethical theory and with frequent use of case studies, it includes an analysis of the global financial system and its regulation and control, as well as a detailed analysis of the financial crisis. Chapters on specific areas of finance ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Global Finance

    by Robert Holton ...
    Series series Shortcuts
    Written under the shadow of the global financial crisis, this book charts the current shape of global finance and tries to explain why the crisis arose – and what can be done about it. Economics alone cannot fully explain how global finance operates, and why it is so crisis prone. Global Finance offers a wider approach in three key ways, by:setting markets and financial market failure in a ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Efficiency, Equality and the Ownership of Property (Routledge Revivals)

    by James E. Meade ...
    Series series Collected Works of James Meade
    First published in 1964, this is a study of the extreme inequalities in the ownership of property, in economies across the globe. Professor Meade examines in depth the economic, demographic and social factors which lead to such inequalities. He considers a wide range of remedial policies – educational development, reformed death duties and capital taxes, demographic policies, trade union action, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Income Inequality

    Why It Matters and Why Most Economists Didn't Notice

    by Matthew P. Drennan ...
    Prevailing economic theory attributes the 2008 crash and the Great Recession that followed to low interest rates, relaxed borrowing standards, and the housing price bubble. After careful analyses of statistical evidence, however, Matthew Drennan discovered that income inequality was the decisive factor behind the crisis. Pressured to keep up consumption in the face of flat or declining incomes, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Monetary Policy Over Fifty Years

    Experiences and Lessons

    Edited by Heinz Herrmann ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
    This book is based on a conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Bundesbank. Since the 1950s, there have been fundamental changes in the monetary order and financial systems, in our understanding of the effects of monetary policy, the best goals for central banks and the appropriate institutional setting of central banks. Prominent monetary economists and central bankers give ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance

    Edited by Karin Knorr Cetina, Alex Preda ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the workings of financial institutions and financial markets beyond the discipline of economics, which has been accelerated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance brings together twenty-nine chapters, written by scholars of international repute from Europe, North America, and Asia, to ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Global Economic Crisis

    New Perspectives on the Critique of Economic Theory and Policy

    Edited by Emiliano Brancaccio, Giuseppe Fontana ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Why did the economists of the so-called "mainstream" seem to fail to foresee the global economic crisis that exploded in 2008? And why do they appear to have difficulty in putting forward an interpretation of it that is consistent with the theoretical foundations of their models? These two questions have echoed insistently since the outbreak of the crisis, not only in academic circles but also in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD