...This chapter explains how private equity rode the easy-credit wave associated with financialization. A different opportunity arose after the financial crash as bank employees became traumatized as their employers tottered and offered labor, specifically the Service Employees International Union...

...://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ . The financial crash of 2008 ended a long period of growth in the British economy. Measures taken to prevent the crash turning into a slump transformed the banking crisis into a fiscal crisis, with the result that how to handle the resulting deficits dominated UK politics...

... with the legacies of Empire, immigration, and Northern Ireland, Britain has ‘muddled through’. This may no longer be enough in the face of demands for greater government accountability. Since the 2008 financial crash, British politics have been ‘wild and unruly’ including a peacetime coalition, elections without...

...At the level of national economies, Grahame Thompson probes the shifting role of central banks, particularly the Bank of England, in handling the manifest inadequacies of free-market economics in the wake of the 2008 financial crash. Although the Bank has not explicitly disavowed market orthodoxy...

... financial crash of 2008 and the subsequent emergence of more nationalist ideologies have challenged both neoliberal assumptions and related financial systems—a development most spectacularly reflected in 2016's pro-Brexit referendum in the UK and the Trump election victory in the same year. This new edition...

.... interests. The chapter first recounts how the United States had been disproportionately responsible for a global financial crash, then looks at Obama's entry just in time to deal with the aftermath. The chapter also emphasizes that the financial crisis had the potential to pose a singularly grave threat...

... seekers humanitarian crises identity institutionalization non state actors social fundamental institutions global financial crash EU debt crisis English School theory In The Expansion of International Society, one of Hedley Bull and Adam Watson’s signature contributions...

...This chapter evaluates the benefits of evidence-informed policy over anecdote through an account of the financial crash in Ireland and the effect of creating public data stories. If politicians, policy makers, local government, the banks and property developers had paid proper attention to the data...

... Invisible hand Neoliberalism financial crash Swedish crash financial liberalization incentives agenda work incentives welfare state While economists were fretting over incentives, the real action was taking place unremarked under their noses. When the major crash that Lindbeck predicted finally...

...-inspired regimes of the 1990s and the 2008 financial crash on Greece, its neighbouring states and its position within Europe and the European Union. Sintès sets out his hypotheses of how these events have shaped the shared space, history, identity and memory of those who live in Greece, in its fringes...

... in Hong Kong and Singapore. The starting point of this book is the financial crash that happened in 1997 and its aftermath in the area. It asks whether the crash was just another financial market phenomenon or whether it revealed something special about the economies in the region. This book also examines...