Part I: Glory Days -- 1. 23 Wall Street -- 2. A Private Club -- 3. Preston in Charge -- 4. Market Shocks -- 5. Crisis Erupts -- 6. Time to Say Goodbye -- Part II: Formulating the Plan -- 7. Origins of Morgan’s Transformation -- 8. Buy or Build? -- 9. Industry Shakeup -- 10. Should Morgan...

This book undertakes a theoretical and econometric analysis of intense economic growth in selected European countries during the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty first. Focusing on the accelerated economic growth that occurred in Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, and...

Chapter 1. Climate Change and Personal Food Choices -- Chapter 2 Part 1. The Role of Lands and Forests -- Part 2. The Role of Water and Air -- Chapter 3. Aggravating Circumstances: Corporate Power against Democracy (Land Grabs for Fodder and Fuel as the Amazon Burns) -- Chapter 4. Migrants and...

1. Indian Food Systems towards 2050: Challenges and Opportunities -- 2. Economic Growth, Agriculture and Food Systems: Explaining Regional Diversity -- 3. Rural Livelihood Challenges: Moving out of Agriculture -- 4.Diet Diversity and the Declining Importance of Staple Grains -- 5.The Nutrition...

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. Introduction - Not Managed at All: How the Idea for this Book Occurred and What it is About -- 2. The Medici and Renaissance Complexity: How the Challenges of Renaissance Banking Finally Defeated the First Multinational Bank -- 3. Rothschild, the Largest Bank in the World: How Multinational...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Typology of Shadow Banking -- 3. Financial Intermediation: A Further Analysis -- 4. Securities Lending and Repos -- 5. Central Counterparties and Systemic Risk -- 6. Identifying Non-bank, Non-insurer Global Systemically Important Financial Institutions -- 7.The Policy...

1. The Macroeconomic Dimensions of Shadow Banking -- 2. Shadow Banking Around the Globe -- 3. The EU Shadow Banking Market -- 4. Shadow Banking in the Americas -- 5. Shadow Banking in Asia -- 6. Shadow Banking in (South) Africa -- 7. Future Directions -- 8. Statement of Principal Conclusions.

A Short Post-communist Economic History of Emerging Europe -- Pre-crisis Central Banking -- Bubbles Everywhere (the 2000s)Under the Clouds of the Subprime Crisis (July 2007 – September 2008)The Lehman Tsunami (September – October 2008) -- The “Rescue Team” and Rescue Package (October –...