"This book examines the main causes of financial instability and highlights that, with the exception of wars and pandemics, the financial system is the source of the crisis, not just a means of spreading it, as most mainstream experts believe. The innovative parts of this book provide academics...

The article sets out the main lessons that we have to consider from the onset and generalized financial and economic crisis of August 2007. The main emphasis is on conceptual and impact assessment of the principle of "too big to fail". Identify reasons for that principle should (or can be)...

1. Economic Soundness -- 2. What Is Economic Crisis? -- 3. Crisis as a Societal Entropic Mark -- 4. Crisis Singularity vs. Crisis Periodicity -- 5. Overlapping Crisis: Crisis Between System and Network -- 6. Crisis Fractality -- 7. Measuring of Societal Crisis -- 8. Facing Crisis: Robustness,...