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Free Download Financial Crisis, Bank Behaviour and Credit Crunch by Stefania P.S. Rossi, Roberto Malavasi
English | PDF (True) | 198 Pages | ISBN : 3319174126 | 3.7 MB
​This book explores some relevant distortions and market failures in financial and banking markets caused by the recent financial crisis and offers important insights to policymakers as well. After having introduced the reader to the economic background behind the origin of the present financial turmoil, the book proposes a distinct angle to look at some macro and microeconomic aspects. The volume discusses whether and to what extent policies, implemented by governments and monetary authorities to countervail bank defaults and avoid a disastrous financial instability, have in some way determined opportunistic conducts (moral hazard), changes in banks’ behaviour, distortive incentives and market failures. Furthermore, the book offers a viewpoint on the effects of the evolution of regulation for the banking sector. Finally, the book assesses how the increase in the cost of funding and the shrinking in credit supply (credit crunch) has modified the financial structure of small and medium firms. To illustrate this, some specific cases at Italian regional level are examined.

Free Download Education and Democracy at The End: The Crisis of Sense by Mario Di Paolantonio
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 232 Pages | ISBN : 3031481763 | 5.9 MB
This book grapples with what it means when education and democracy are at an end: when these two foundational aspects of our society seem to have reached a culminating point, no longer appearing to produce and make sense amid the crises of our time. Engaging topical political events and mobilizing a variety of cultural resources, Di Paolantonio shows that today the possibility of the future and the significance of an expansive transgenerational sensibility are radically in question as trends toward destruction, cruelty, and banality are steering world-defying calamities, and sparking "chronopathologies" of doom and despair among the planet’s occupants. Unfolding his argument through a series of accessible chapters that draw on contemporary philosophy, educational thinking, and cultural-artistic works, Di Paolantonio explores how the transgenerational sensibility retains a possibility we might tap for overcoming the impasses of our time.

Free Download Cursing, Crisis and Customary Knowledge in Early Modern English Townships by Karen O’Brien
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 282 Pages | ISBN : 3031440447 | 4.8 MB
This book provides a historical and socio-legal investigation into the prevalence of litigation arising from cursing and interpersonal hostility in the under-explored region of Northwest England during a period of acute socio-economic crisis in the seventeenth century. Contributing to the scholarship of magic and witchcraft, it shows the complex circumstances of the world of healing and harming using customary knowledge such as magic and folk medicine as it is variously presented in the documents of the legal system. While primary sources such as pamphlets have usefully informed numerous witchcraft studies, this book establishes popular belief derived from the depositions, interrogatories and various other manuscripts of the manorial, ecclesiastical and secular courts positioned within a micro historical early modern context.

Free Download Majia Nadesan, "Crisis Communication, Liberal Democracy, and Ecological Sustainability: The Threat of Financial and Energy Complexes in "
English | ISBN: 073919495X | 2016 | 270 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Crisis Communication, Liberal Democracy, and Ecological Sustainability provides a detailed and empirical analysis of the institutions, governing logics, risk-management practices, and crisis communication strategies involved in the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the 2010 BP oil crisis, and the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis. These human-engineered crises threaten sustainability through resource depletion, environmental degradation, and the growth of geo-political conflicts. Yet, the corporations responsible have returned to profitability by externalizing risks to communities and governments. In response to this pattern of crisis management, Nadesan argues that contemporary financial and energy complexes pose significant threats to liberal democracy and ecological sustainability. This book will be of interest to scholars of communication studies, cultural studies, sociology, political science, anthropology, and economics.

Free Download Miles Glendinning, "Clone City: Crisis and Renewal in Contemporary Scottish Architecture"
English | ISBN: 0748662553 | | 248 pages | PDF | 189 MB
Clone City brings architecture, for the first time, into the mainstream of debates about Scottish cultural identity. It analyses polemically the ways in which contemporary market-led globalisation has fragmented and debased the Scottish urban environment. It examines the pointers to possible solutions provided by history, and especially by the lessons of the 20th-century Modern Movement. Building on these examples, it sketches out ways in which a more socially organic and place-specific architecture can be reconciled with modernity’s pressure of freedom and individuality and it shows how that process can actively help in the building of a Scottish identity under home rule.* Integrates architecture and the built environment into mainstreamScottish cultural identity debates; introduces architectural issues to the wider Scottish public* The first book to set out a critical, polemical position on Scottish architecture* Sets contemporary Scottish architecture and city planning issues in a comprehensive historical context* Examines the relevance of the ideas of Patrick Geddes to the contemporary Scottish city

Free Download Women’s Health and Pandemic Crisis
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031437470 | 425 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 13 MB
This book focuses on the unique challenges for women in a pandemic situation, both as caretakers and patients. It has been noted that in the last two years medical doctors, psychologists, and health workers have seen a huge impact of the pandemic experience on women and their families. Children and adolescents suffered from a strong reduction of social contacts, while families had often to resort to cramped living condition that put a strain on normal life activities, especially in underprivileged areas of society. Fear and uncertainty reigned. All these factors caused a wide range of psychosocial symptoms, from loneliness to domestic violence, depression, and psychosomatic reactions.

Free Download Aamir R. Mufti, "Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture"
English | 2007 | pages: 343 | ISBN: 069105732X, 0691057311 | PDF | 2,1 mb
Enlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "Jewish question" for the first time to a broader discussion-one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times, and in particular the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India.

Free Download Transformations and Crisis of Liberalism in Argentina, 1930-1955 by Jorge A. Nallim
English | September 30, 2012 | ISBN: 0822962039 | 288 pages | PDF | 1.71 Mb
In this original study, Jorge A. Nállim chronicles the decline of liberalism in Argentina during the volatile period between two military coups-the 1930 overthrow of

Free Download The Giving Crisis: Helping Average Givers Become Everyday Philanthropists by Andrew S. McNair
English | April 25, 2023 | ISBN: 1637631502 | 169 pages | PDF | 5.09 Mb
The Giving Crisis by Andrew McNair offers average givers a different solution for finding meaning and purpose in their lives-radical generosity.

Free Download The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf
English | 2032 | ISBN: 0241303419 | 598 pages | PDF | 7.27 Mb
From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone