Reading About the Financial Crisis: A Twenty-One-Book Review

Book Review the Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered

The author claims that his motivation to write this book is rooted in his realization that in the post cold war era the real threat to capitalism is from within, and to present this idea systematically he had already planned to write a book but, ". .. was doing it in a leisurely fashion. .. " (p. xi). However the Asian financial crisis that started from Thailand in July, 1997 made him realize t...

The Financial Crisis

AcADEMIC LIBRARIES are in crisis, and it appears that the larger the library, the larger the crisis. The major need for charting a course to a successful future is definition of fruitful objectives. Such objectives as library support of and coordination with its institution's programs are no longer sufficient; these rationalized goals of the past are inadequate for the future. To establish usef...

Book review: A long-awaited book about spiders from the Asian part of Russia

The authors of the book are well known scientists in Russian arachnology. Yuri Marusik has written more than 250 articles and several monographs. As a result of his work the number of known species from this region has increased from 500 at the end of the 1970s to approximately 2000 at present. He has described more than 400 new species and genera as well as having compiled check-lists for the ...

Crisis Transmission: Global Financial Crisis

The aim of this paper is to explore, empirically, the channels of crisis transmission with regard to the Global financial crisis. EMP-based crisis proxy is used for eight countries, which include Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mexico and Russia. The period considered for estimation was Q1 2001 Q2 2010. Based on the Vector AutoRegression (VAR) and Ordinary Least Squares (OLS...

Reading the Qur’an as a Law Book