Robert Aliber discusses the reasons for bank failures and financial crises. He makes three main points. First, US macroeconomic stability would be increased if the US Congress established a government agency to provide capital to individual banks after a systemic crisis causes large loan losses....

The global financial crisis of 2008 led to the most severe decline in production and employment and in world trade since the Great Depression of the early 1930s. Hundreds of banks and other financial firms failed in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, and...

Manias, Panics and Crashes , is a scholarly and entertaining account of the way that mismanagement of money and credit has led to financial explosions over the centuries. Covering such topics as the history and anatomy of crises, speculative manias, and the lender of last resort, this book has...

1. What next for the global economy: Could negative supply shocks disrupt fragile systems? -- 2. Deep historical roots, culture choice and the New World Order -- 3. Growth without democracy: Has China’s time of rapid growth come to an end? -- 4. Coping with international monetary instability...

1. A Retrospective on the 2008 Global Financial Crisis- Robert Z Aliber and Gylfi Zoega -- Part I: The Source of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis -- 2. The Financial Alchemy that Failed- Marcus Miller -- 3. Prudential Regulation and Capital Controls- Michael Dooley -- 4. Three Grand State...