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      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        May 2016

        Lehman Brothers

        A crisis of value

        by Oonagh McDonald

        Using extensive documentary evidence and interviews with former Lehman employees, Oonagh McDonald reveals the decisions that led to Lehman's collapse, investigates why the government refused a bail-out and whether the implications of this refusal were fully understood. In clear and accessible language she demonstrates both the short and long term effects of Lehman's collapse. ;

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        March 2017

        Finance and accounting for business

        A new insight, third edition

        by Bob Ryan, Nicholas Collett

        Finance and accounting for business is a self-contained treatment of all the of the accounting and finance needed for students to be able to work effectively at the highest levels within business. It is written in a readily accessible and easily understood style covering three key areas: financial accounting, including the analysis and forecasting of accounting information; management accounting; and corporate finance. The focus is on the interpretation and analysis of accounting and financial information and is especially relevant for courses in either accounting, finance and financial management. It is replete with examples drawn from the practical world of business and draws on the authors' extensive experience of the problems of the senior manager. The style is designed to make the subject easily accessible even for the student who finds numbers and analysis challenging. A suite of teaching materials is available for download including tips and templates to help establish a new course of study.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2017

        Salvage ethnography in the financial sector

        The path to economic crisis in Scotland

        by Jonathan Hearn, Alexander Smith

        This book is based on ethnographic research from 2001-2, during Bank of Scotland's first year of merger with Halifax to form HBOS. The research is revisited from the present perspective in the wake of the global banking and financial crisis that undermined HBOS in 2008. This historical perspective on the ethnographic data is used to explore: people's responses to the pressures of heightened competition and organisational change; mutual and sometimes antagonistic perceptions of Scottish and English identities across the two merged banks; conflicting evaluations of national and organisational cultures; and the challenges of integrating ethnographic and historical perspectives in a single study. As an historical ethnography it 'salvages' a disappearing culture of Scottish and UK banking, disintegrated by neoliberal processes.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2017

        Salvage ethnography in the financial sector

        The path to economic crisis in Scotland

        by Jonathan Hearn, Alexander Smith

        This book is based on ethnographic research from 2001-2, during Bank of Scotland's first year of merger with Halifax to form HBOS. The research is revisited from the present perspective in the wake of the global banking and financial crisis that undermined HBOS in 2008. This historical perspective on the ethnographic data is used to explore: people's responses to the pressures of heightened competition and organisational change; mutual and sometimes antagonistic perceptions of Scottish and English identities across the two merged banks; conflicting evaluations of national and organisational cultures; and the challenges of integrating ethnographic and historical perspectives in a single study. As an historical ethnography it 'salvages' a disappearing culture of Scottish and UK banking, disintegrated by neoliberal processes.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        September 2016

        Lehman Brothers

        A crisis of value

        by Oonagh McDonald

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2017

        Salvage ethnography in the financial sector

        The path to economic crisis in Scotland

        by Jonathan Hearn, Alexander Smith

        This book is based on ethnographic research from 2001-2, during Bank of Scotland's first year of merger with Halifax to form HBOS. The research is revisited from the present perspective in the wake of the global banking and financial crisis that undermined HBOS in 2008. This historical perspective on the ethnographic data is used to explore: people's responses to the pressures of heightened competition and organisational change; mutual and sometimes antagonistic perceptions of Scottish and English identities across the two merged banks; conflicting evaluations of national and organisational cultures; and the challenges of integrating ethnographic and historical perspectives in a single study. As an historical ethnography it 'salvages' a disappearing culture of Scottish and UK banking, disintegrated by neoliberal processes.

      • Trusted Partner
        Banking
        November 2015

        Lehman Brothers

        A crisis of value

        by Oonagh McDonald

        Using extensive documentary evidence and interviews with former Lehman employees, Oonagh McDonald reveals the decisions that led to Lehman's collapse, investigates why the government refused a bail-out and whether the implications of this refusal were fully understood. In clear and accessible language she demonstrates both the short and long term effects of Lehman's collapse.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business & management
        February 2017

        Finance and accounting for business

        A new insight, third edition

        by Bob Ryan, Nicholas Collett

        This is a self-contained treatment of all the of the accounting and finance needed for students to be able to work effectively at the highest levels within business. It is written in a readily accessible style, covering three key areas: financial accounting, including the analysis and forecasting of accounting information; management accounting; and corporate finance. The focus is on the interpretation and analysis of accounting and financial information and is especially relevant for courses in either accounting, finance and financial management. The book is filled with examples taken from the practical world of business and draws on the authors' extensive experience of the problems of the senior manager. The style is designed to make the subject easily accessible even for the student who finds numbers and analysis challenging. A suite of teaching materials is available for download including tips and templates to help establish a new course of study.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        March 2019

        Holding bankers to account

        A decade of market manipulation, regulatory failures and regulatory reforms

        by Oonagh McDonald

        This book provides a compelling account of the rigging of benchmarks during and after the financial crisis of 2007-08. Written in clear language accessible to the non-specialist, it provides the historical context necessary for understanding the benchmarks - Libor, Forex and the Gold and Silver Fixes - and shows how and why they have to be reformed in the face of rapid technological changes in markets. Though banks have been fined and a few traders have been jailed, justice will not be done until senior bankers are made responsible for their actions. Provocative and rigorously argued, this book makes concrete recommendations for improving the security of the financial services industry and holding bankers to account.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        March 2019

        Holding bankers to account

        A decade of market manipulation, regulatory failures and regulatory reforms

        by Oonagh McDonald

        This book provides a compelling account of the rigging of benchmarks during and after the financial crisis of 2007-08. Written in clear language accessible to the non-specialist, it provides the historical context necessary for understanding the benchmarks - Libor, Forex and the Gold and Silver Fixes - and shows how and why they have to be reformed in the face of rapid technological changes in markets. Though banks have been fined and a few traders have been jailed, justice will not be done until senior bankers are made responsible for their actions. Provocative and rigorously argued, this book makes concrete recommendations for improving the security of the financial services industry and holding bankers to account.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        March 2019

        Holding bankers to account

        A decade of market manipulation, regulatory failures and regulatory reforms

        by Oonagh McDonald

        This book provides a compelling account of the rigging of benchmarks during and after the financial crisis of 2007-08. Written in clear language accessible to the non-specialist, it provides the historical context necessary for understanding the benchmarks - Libor, Forex and the Gold and Silver Fixes - and shows how and why they have to be reformed in the face of rapid technological changes in markets. Though banks have been fined and a few traders have been jailed, justice will not be done until senior bankers are made responsible for their actions. Provocative and rigorously argued, this book makes concrete recommendations for improving the security of the financial services industry and holding bankers to account.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        July 2022

        The value of a whale

        On the illusions of green capitalism

        by Adrienne Buller

        Nature is being destroyed at an unprecedented rate. Despite countless pledges and summits, we remain on course for a catastrophic 3C of warming. In a world of immense wealth, billions still live below the poverty line and on the frontlines of environmental breakdown. Increasingly, the world is waking up to this reality, but are the 'solutions' being proposed really solutions? In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines the escalating plunder of the natural world under financial capitalism, and exposes the fatal biases that have shaped climate and environmental policymaking. Tracing the intricate connections between financial power, vested interests and environmental governance, she exposes the myopic economism and market-centric thinking presently undermining a future where all life can flourish. The book explains what is wrong with carbon pricing, off-setting and asset management's recent interest in all things environmental. Both honest and optimistic, The value of a whale asks us - in the face of crisis - what we really value.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        July 2022

        The value of a whale

        On the illusions of green capitalism

        by Adrienne Buller

        Nature is being destroyed at an unprecedented rate. Despite countless pledges and summits, we remain on course for a catastrophic 3C of warming. In a world of immense wealth, billions still live below the poverty line and on the frontlines of environmental breakdown. Increasingly, the world is waking up to this reality, but are the 'solutions' being proposed really solutions? In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines the escalating plunder of the natural world under financial capitalism, and exposes the fatal biases that have shaped climate and environmental policymaking. Tracing the intricate connections between financial power, vested interests and environmental governance, she exposes the myopic economism and market-centric thinking presently undermining a future where all life can flourish. The book explains what is wrong with carbon pricing, off-setting and asset management's recent interest in all things environmental. Both honest and optimistic, The value of a whale asks us - in the face of crisis - what we really value.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        February 2022

        Latin America and international investment law

        A mosaic of resistance

        by Sufyan Droubi, Cecilia Juliana Flores Elizondo, Jean d'Aspremont, Sufyan Droubi, Iain Scobbie

        Latin America has been a complex laboratory for the development of international investment law. While some governments and non-state actors have remained true to the Latin American tradition of resistance towards the international investment law regime, other governments and actors have sought to accommodate said regime in the region. Consequently, a profusion of theories and doctrines, too often embedded in clashing narratives, has emerged. In Latin America, the practice of international investment law is the vivid amalgamation of the practice of governments sometimes resisting and sometimes welcoming mainstream approaches; the practice of lawyers assisting foreign investors from outside and within the region; and the practice of civil society, indigenous peoples and other actors in their struggle for human rights and sustainable development. Latin America and international investment law describes the complex roles that governments have played vis-à-vis foreign investors and investments; the refreshing but clashing forces that international organizations, corporations, civil society, and indigenous peoples have brought to the field; and the contribution that Latin America has made to the development of the theory and practice of international investment law, notably in fields in which the Latin American experience has been traumatic: human rights and sustainable development. Latin American scholars have been contributing to the theory of international investment law for over a century; resting on the shoulders of true giants, this volume aims at pushing this contribution a little further.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        February 2022

        Latin America and international investment law

        A mosaic of resistance

        by Sufyan Droubi, Cecilia Juliana Flores Elizondo, Jean d'Aspremont, Sufyan Droubi, Iain Scobbie

        Latin America has been a complex laboratory for the development of international investment law. While some governments and non-state actors have remained true to the Latin American tradition of resistance towards the international investment law regime, other governments and actors have sought to accommodate said regime in the region. Consequently, a profusion of theories and doctrines, too often embedded in clashing narratives, has emerged. In Latin America, the practice of international investment law is the vivid amalgamation of the practice of governments sometimes resisting and sometimes welcoming mainstream approaches; the practice of lawyers assisting foreign investors from outside and within the region; and the practice of civil society, indigenous peoples and other actors in their struggle for human rights and sustainable development. Latin America and international investment law describes the complex roles that governments have played vis-à-vis foreign investors and investments; the refreshing but clashing forces that international organizations, corporations, civil society, and indigenous peoples have brought to the field; and the contribution that Latin America has made to the development of the theory and practice of international investment law, notably in fields in which the Latin American experience has been traumatic: human rights and sustainable development. Latin American scholars have been contributing to the theory of international investment law for over a century; resting on the shoulders of true giants, this volume aims at pushing this contribution a little further.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        June 2020

        The UK financial system

        Theory and practice, fifth edition

        by Mike Buckle, John Thompson

        Throughout the world the nature and regulation of financial systems have changed dramatically following the global financial crisis. This book introduces the necessary theory and a range of relevant statistics to supplement the narrative. Coverage includes a critique of the UK financial institutions and markets, as well as regulation emanating both from within the UK and also from supranational bodies such as the Bank for International Settlements and the European Union. The discussion is based on both the underlying theory as well as the operating practices of the institutions and markets. The book is subdivided into three main sections, each supplemented by a comprehensive glossary: financial institutions; financial markets; and the regulation of banks and other financial institutions. It will be essential reading for undergraduate students enrolled on courses in financial economics and banking.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2022

        The entangled legacies of empire

        Race, finance and inequality

        by Clea Bourne, Paul Gilbert, Max Haiven, Johnna Montgomerie

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2022

        The entangled legacies of empire

        Race, finance and inequality

        by Clea Bourne, Paul Gilbert, Max Haiven, Johnna Montgomerie

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