1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456569003321

Autore

Heng Michael S. H. <1948->

Titolo

Destructive creativity of Wall St. and the East Asian response [[electronic resource] /] / Michael Heng Siam-Heng, Lim Tai Wei

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2009

ISBN

1-282-44287-2

9786612442872

981-4273-79-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LimTai-Wei

Disciplina

330.95/0429

Soggetti

Financial crises - East Asia - History - 20th century

Financial crises - History - 21st century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Potted history of banking and finance -- In the shadow of depression? -- Financial engineering, or what can go wrong will -- Financial architecture, 1 -- Financial architecture, 2 -- Reforming the IMF : from fire fighting to fire prevention -- Regulation and deregulation -- Back to basics -- Counter-cyclical measures -- Some deeper issues -- The 1997 Asian financial crisis -- Ten years after the Asian financial crisis : positive lessons learned -- Ten years after the Asian financial crisis : negative lessons learned -- Deconstructing the state-led model -- Reforming the state-led model -- The global financial crisis 2008 -- Impact and immediate response to the crisis in East Asia -- Coordinating with the region and the world -- ASEAN economic regionalism : a regional financial architecture in the making? -- Forming an economic community -- A shift in power center? -- What now? -- Coping with challenges.

Sommario/riassunto

The current financial crisis provides a valuable occasion for the world to re-examine the grand statements of wisdom which dominate the financial world for a long time. The impact is extremely serious as a result of the convergence of a number of factors such as huge current account deficits of the United States, globalization, deregulation, loose



monetary policy, and excessive liquidity. This book seeks to address the critical issues in deregulation, derivatives, leveraging, remuneration systems, and rating agencies. This book will also examine Asia's response and why Asian economies have bee

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792940403321

Titolo

Anarchism, 1914–18 : Internationalism, anti-militarism and war / / edited by Matthew S. Adams and Ruth Kinna

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020

©2017

ISBN

1-5261-2818-7

1-5261-1576-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 pages)

Disciplina

940.3

Soggetti

Anarchism

POLITICAL SCIENCE - Genocide & War Crimes

POLITICAL SCIENCE - Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism

World War, 1914-1918

Anarchism - History - 20th century

History

Conference papers and proceedings.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

"This collection originated from two panels organised for the 10th European Social Science History Conference, held in Vienna in 2014."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part III: The art of war: anti-militarism and revolution; 9 The anarchist anti-conscription movement in the USA: Kathy E. Ferguson; 10 Aestheticising revolution: Allan Antliff; 11 Mutualism in the trenches: anarchism, militarism and the lessons of the First World War: Matthew S. Adams; Index.

4 Beyond the 'people's community': the anarchist movement from the



fin de siecle to the First World War in Germany: Lukas Keller; 5 'No man and no penny': Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, anti-militarism and the opportunities of the First World War: Bert Altena; 6 'The bomb plot of Zurich': Indian nationalism, Italian anarchism and the First World War: Ole Birk Laursen; 7 The French anarchist movement and the First World War: Constance Bantman and David Berry; 8 At war with empire: the anti-colonial roots of American anarchist debates during the First World War: Kenyon Zimmer.

Cover; Anarchism, 1914-18; Contents; Notes on contributors ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Matthew S. Adams and Ruth Kinna; Part I: The interventionist debate; 1 Saving the future: the roots of Malatesta's anti-militarism: Davide Turcato; 2 The Manifesto of the Sixteen: Kropotkin's rejection of anti-war anarchism and his critique of the politics of peace: Peter Ryley; 3 Malatesta and the war interventionist debate 1914-17: from the 'Red Week' to the Russian revolutions: Carl Levy; Part II: Debates and divisions.

Sommario/riassunto

A volume that focuses on the complex and multifaceted answers that the international anarchist movement gave to the outbreak of the First World War and its aftermaths and, in turn, the impact of the Great War on the anarchist movement.