Hall of mirrors : the Great Depression, the great recession, and the uses-and misuses-of history / / Barry Eichengreen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787010803321
• Autore: Eichengreen Barry J.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-19-939202-1; 0-19-062107-9; 0-19-939201-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 514 p.)
• Classificazione: 16.20.20; 16.20
• Disciplina: 330.9/043
• Soggetti: Depressions - 1929; Economic policy - History - 20th century; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Economic policy - History - 21st century
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Castles in Spain Made Real -- Inflation's Shadow -- Children's Playroom -- Financialization with a Vengeance -- Flip That House -- Europe and the Euro -- The Crisis to End All Crises -- The J.P. Morgan of the South -- Shuttle Diplomacy -- Will America Topple Too? -- Largely Contained -- Out of the Shadows -- The Worst Financial Crisis Since 1933 -- The Three B's -- New Deal -- Double Dip -- Preventing the Worst -- Unconventional Policy -- Weak Soup -- The Turn to Austerity -- The Euro Crisis -- Whatever It Takes -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: "There have been two global financial crises in the past century: the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession that began in 2008. Both featured loose credit, precarious real estate and stock market bubbles, suspicious banking practices, an inflexible monetary system, and global imbalances; both had devastating economic consequences. In both cases, people in the prosperous decade preceding the crash believed they were living in a post-volatility ; economy, one that had tamed the cycle of boom and bust. When the global financial system began to totter in 2008, policymakers were able to draw on the lessons of the Great Depression in order to prevent a repeat, but their response was still inadequate to prevent massive economic turmoil on a global scale. In Hall of Mirrors, renowned economist Barry Eichengreen provides the first book-length analysis of the two crises and their aftermaths. Weaving together the narratives of the 30s and recent years, he shows how fear of another Depression greatly informed the policy response after the Lehman Brothers collapse, with both positive and negative results. On the positive side, institutions took the opposite paths that they had during the Depression; government increased spending and cut taxes, and central banks reduced interest rates, flooded the market with liquidity, and coordinated international cooperation. This in large part prevented the bank failures, 25% unemployment rate, and other disasters that characterized the Great Depression. But they all too often hewed too closely and too literally to the lessons of the Depression, seeing it as a mirror rather than focusing on the core differences. Moreover, in their haste to differentiate themselves from their forbears, today's policymakers neglected the constructive but ultimately futile steps that the Federal Reserve took in the 1930s. While the rapidly constructed policies of late 2008 did succeed in staving off catastrophe in the years after, policymakers, institutions, and society as a whole were too eager to get back to normal, even when that meant stunting the recovery via harsh austerity policies and eschewing necessary long-term reforms. The result was a grindingly slow recovery in the US and a devastating recession in Europe. Hall of Mirrors is not only a monumental work of economic history, but an essential exploration of how we avoided making only some of the same mistakes twice--and why our partial remedy makes us highly susceptible to making other, equally important mistakes yet again"--

Urban guerrilla warfare [[electronic resource] /] / Anthony James Joes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778151703321
• Autore: Joes Anthony James
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2007
• ISBN: 0-8131-3759-4; 0-8131-3483-8; 1-283-23312-6; 9786613233127; 0-8131-7223-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.4/25
• Soggetti: Guerrilla warfare - History - 20th century
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Warsaw 1944 -- Budapest 1956 -- Algiers 1957 -- São Paulo 1965-1971 and Montevideo 1963-1973 -- Saigon 1968 -- Northern Ireland 1970-1998 -- Grozny 1994-1996 -- Conclusion : looking back and ahead.
• Sommario/riassunto: Guerrilla insurgencies continue to rage across the globe, fueled by ethnic and religious conflict and the easy availability of weapons. Reflecting the massive global movement of population from the countryside to cities, guerrilla conflict in urban areas, similar to the current violence in Iraq, will become more frequent. In his wide-ranging and richly detailed comparative analysis, Anthony James Joes examines eight key examples of urban guerrilla conflict across half a century and four continents: Warsaw in 1944, Budapest in 1956, Algiers in 1957, Montevideo and Sao Paulo in the 1960's, Sai

Advancing the common good : strategies for business, governments, and nonprofits / / Philip Kotler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822150603321
• Autore: Kotler Philip
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Santa Barbara, California ; ; Denver, Colorado : , : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, , [2019]; ©2019
• ISBN: 979-82-16-04254-9; 1-4408-7245-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (196 pages)
• Disciplina: 320.011
• Soggetti: Common good; Public interest; Social action
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Defining the common good -- Assessing the impact of proposed actions on human happiness and well-being -- Protecting and enhancing public goods -- Identifying today's major social problems -- Activists, reformers and social movements -- Key tools for advancing the common good -- What can businesses do to advance the common good? -- What can government do to advance the common good? -- What can nonprofit organizations do to advance the common good?