Author: Robin Cook
Publisher: Berkley
Keywords: contagion
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1996-12-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0425155943
ISBN-13: 9780425155943
Robin Cook’s most frightening bestseller is "exciting...a good, fast read."(Denver Post) One of Cook’s most successful-and timely-bestsellers. Contagion is a terrifying cautionary tale for the millennium as a deadly epidemic is spread not merely by microbes-but by sabotage.
Author: Nick de la Pena
Publisher: Xulon Press
Keywords: contagion
Number of Pages: 508
Published: 2010-09-28
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 1609576470
ISBN-13: 9781609576479
Author: Aaron Lynch
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: contagion, thought
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1998-11-27
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0465084672
ISBN-13: 9780465084678
Fans of Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Bennet, and Richard Dawkins (as well as science buffs and readers of Wired Magazine) will revel in Aaron Lynch’s groundbreaking examination of memeticsthe new study of how ideas and beliefs spread. What characterizes a meme is its capacity for displacing rival ideas and beliefs in an evolutionary drama that determines and changes the way people think. Exactly how do ideas spread, and what are the factors that make them genuine thought contagions? Why, for instance, do some beliefs spread throughout society, while others dwindle to extinction? What drives
Authors:Stijn Claessens, Kristin Forbe,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: contagion, financial, international
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2001-05-11
List price: $209.00
ISBN-10: 0792372859
ISBN-13: 9780792372851
Within less than two years, a currency crisis that began in Thailand had spread throughout East Asia, Russia, and Brazil, affecting developed economies as well as emerging markets around the world. The scope and virulence of this international financial contagion was completely unexpected. In an attempt to better understand these events, a group of leading economists from international institutions, academic universities, and the private sector gathered at a conference sponsored by the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and Asian Development Bank. This book presents a selection of the pa
Author: Roberto Rigobo
Publisher: Research Foundation of AIMR (CFA Institute)
Keywords: evidence, evolution, theory, contagion, financial, international
Number of Pages: 109
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0943205581
ISBN-13: 9780943205588
Whenever one of the developing markets sneezes, the rest of the emerging markets in the world are likely to suffer from anything from the sniffles to pneumonia. When the connections among the countries is slim, this phenomenon has come to be known as financial contagion. This Research Foundation monograph provides an introduction to this fascinating subject-definitions of the term, instances of contagion in the 1990s, the theories that attempt to explain it, previous evidence from tests of the theories and problems with the testing procedures, and the results of new tests. Because the new rese
Author: Padma Desai
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: asia, argentina, containment, contagion, crisis, financial
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-04-21
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0691113920
ISBN-13: 9780691113920
This book provides a sweeping, up-to-date, and boldly critical account of the financial crises that rocked East Asia and other parts of the world beginning with the collapse of the Thai baht in 1997. Retracing the story of Asia’s "Crisis Five"--Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand--Padma Desai argues that the region’s imprudently fast-paced opening to the free flow of capital was pushed by determined advocates, official and private, in the global economy’s U.S.-led developed center. Turmoil ensued in these peripheral economies, the Russian ruble fal
Author: John R. Talbott
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: economy, protect, yourself, global, sweeping, financial, epidemic, contagion
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-12-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0470442212
ISBN-13: 9780470442210
Tough times are ahead and Talbott argues that the coming recession will be on a global scale, affecting economies across the world. We have had no real growth in GDP for the last ten years if purchases with government and personal debt are excluded. In effect, government borrowing and spending on the war and healthcare and Social Security and corporate give-aways combined with dramatic increases in personal spending funded by credit card and mortgage debt have funded unsustainable levels of personal and government consumption. The world’s banks are threatened with insolvency due to bad m
