Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ursula J. van Beek
• Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski
• van Beek, Ursula J
• Wnuk-Lipinski, Edmund

Titel

The crisis that shook the world

Ist Teil von

• Democracy under Stress, 2011, p.11

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Germany: Verlag Barbara Budrich

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

UTB Scholars

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This book is a cautionary tale about the September 2008 financial ‘earthquake’ and the global tsunami that followed. The worst of the panic might be over, but does this mean it is back to business as usual? Hardly. The earthquake exposed fault lines we can afford to ignore only at our own peril. In fact, the need to understand what happened, why it happened and what the possible long-term consequences could be, have turned into the most burning questions of our time, and certainly not only for economists. At the epicentre of the global earthquake was the bankruptcy of Lehman