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Are financial crises embedded in IT? Can gender studies offer insights into financial reporting? Feminist theories and Science and Technology Studies (STS) can enrich a critique of financial crises in capitalism as the author argues their critical, political economic approaches to communication can help in understanding because they historicize technology and economy and how these are materially embedded. Current literature has neglected finance and capital's gendered aspect - even - the ideology of a 'crisis'. This book develops four themes: women as resources in financial markets and as producers of values; gender ideology and unequal distribution; machine production and distribution of financial information and the varied actuality of markets. Working with case histories of tulipmania, microcredit, Wall Street reporting and the role of 'screens', Bubbles and Machines argues that rather than calling financial crises human-made or inevitable they should be recognized as technological.

Financial crises.

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Title in English: Improving Public Sector Efficiency in Times of Public Finance Crisis This publication is the summary of results of free selected PhD theses prepared by students from ESF MU, dealing with two very actual topics: - the analysis of impact from introducing heath care fees in the Czech Republic (Krutilova), - efficiency of taxation - administrative and compliance costs (Pompura, Cizmarik).

Financial crises. --- Crashes, Financial --- Crises, Financial --- Financial crashes --- Financial panics --- Panics (Finance) --- Stock exchange crashes --- Stock market panics --- Crises

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This book aims to frame the study of the different types of risk involving the intervention of civil protection agents, at the same time that it seeks to specify the meaning, in the Portuguese language, of some of the main concepts associated with risk theory and contributing to the definition of the methodology about the study of physical and human hazards, designed with a holistic character and therefore different from the parcelary analyses made by the science which contributes to the methodology of their respective specialties, whether it is natural sciences, social sciences and humanities or economic sciences. In this way and unlike these more specific sciences, which have a more specialised view and, therefore, also more in the risk, the sciences about the study of physical and human hazards seek to concentrate on the overall risk study, through a holistic view that encompasses the different types of manifestations because they materialize. In fact, only the sciences about the study of physical and human hazards possess all the risks as a central and unique object of study, involving all types and, also, their different phases of manifestation, from prevention to the recovery of areas where they have manifested themselves, and also their stakeholders, from the characters to the infrastructures, contrary to what happens to other sciences that consider the risks more as manifestations, which are studied only in aspects that relate to their specialty. Moreover, this approach about the study of physical and human hazards seeks to be global and systemic, that is, it tries to take into account all the elements that explain different types of risk, from its origin: natural, anthropic or mixed, to the consequences caused by its manifestation, both in people, in their goods and possessions. Finally, we consider that education is the most appropriate way to solve the problems resulting from the manifestation of risks, so that the technical-scientific knowledge, materialized in several knowledge, is fundamental for a properly sustained education. For all these reasons, the publication of this book aims to contribute to the knowledge about the study of physical and human hazards and, through it, to a better education and a greater resilience of the population to the manifestations of risk and, therefore, contribute to the reduction of the risk.

Risks --- Crises --- Society --- Dangers --- Territories --- Catastrophes

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"Die Zukunft scheint unsicher, ja bedrohlich. Ob Klimawandel, möglicher Kollaps der Märkte oder die Entwicklung der westlichen Demokratien: Allgegenwärtig sieht man sich mit möglichen Katastrophen konfrontiert. Mit den intensiv darüber geführten Zukunftsdiskursen beschäftigen sich die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses interdisziplinären Bands, und zwar in analytisch-historischen Perspektiven. Denn die Art und Weise, wie man die Zukunft in den Blick nimmt, ist weder beliebig noch allgemein, sondern stark von religiös-apokalyptischen Denkmustern und Vorstellungswelten geprägt. Die ausführlichen Hintergrundanalysen geben überraschende Antworten auf apokalyptische Szenarien unserer Zeit."--Verl.

Interdisciplinary research. --- Disasters. --- Crises. --- Forecasting. --- Apocalyptic literature.

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Weighing up the costs and benefits of economic interdependence in a finance-driven world, this book argues that globalization, understood and promoted as absolute freedom for all forms of capital, has been oversold to the Global South, and that the South should be as selective about globalization as the North. 'Liberalization, Financial Instability and Economic Development' challenges the orthodoxy on the link between financial deepening and economic growth, as well as that between the efficiency of financial markets and the benefits of liberalization. Ultimately, the author urges developing countries to control capital flows and asset bubbles, preventing financial fragility and crises, and recommends regional policy options for managing capital flows and exchange rates.

Finance. --- Financial crises. --- Finance --- Economic development --- Crashes, Financial --- Crises, Financial --- Financial crashes --- Financial panics --- Panics (Finance) --- Stock exchange crashes --- Stock market panics --- Crises --- Funding --- Funds --- Economics --- Currency question