Franklin Allen: 28 books

Sustainable, responsible financial innovation: lessons from the crisis, and new paths to global prosperity   After the global financial crisis, responsible financial innovation is more crucial than ever. However, financial innovation will only succeed if it reflects the true lessons of the past decade....

Franklin Allen Leib, a former naval officer and the highly acclaimed author of the bestselling Fire Arrow, has crafted a legal thriller as suspenseful as it is thought-provoking in The House of Pain. When a spoiled teen is kidnapped outside her prestigious prep school, her parents are faced...

This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Financing the Future: Market-Based Innovations for Growth (9780137011278) by Franklin Allen and Glenn Yago. Available in print and digital formats.   How the housing bubble really happened: an explanation that’s simple,...

Fire Dream captures the depth and essence of the Vietnam War experience as no other novel has. A generation came of age in Vietnam, then returned home to find itself reviled at worst and ignored at best. Between the fighting and the return was a world of living and loving. Franklin Allen Leib has...

"One of the finest military novels in many years." - Kirkus. In The Fire Dream, Franklin Allen Leib's epic story from the Vietnam War, Lt. William Stuart, a compassionate platoon leader from the 7th ANGLICO (Air and Naval Gunfire Liaison Company) survived his unit's last battle but continued...

Modern financial systems exhibit a high degree of interdependence, with connections between financial institutions stemming from both the asset and the liability sides of their balance sheets. Networks--broadly understood as a collection of nodes and links between nodes--can be a useful representation...

The terrorist hijacking of a chartered U.S. Navy plane sets the stage for frantic negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union and a dramatic, split-second rescue attempt that threatens to explode into global conflict.

Ever since the ancient Greeks, financial innovation has enabled more people to purchase homes. Today is no different: in fact, responsible financial innovation is now the best tool available for "rebooting" crippled housing markets, improving their efficiency, and making housing more accessible...

Financial innovation can drive social, economic, and environmental change, transforming ideas into new technologies, industries, and jobs. But when it is misunderstood or mismanaged, the consequences can be severe. In this practical, accessible book, two leading experts explain how sophisticated capital...

What causes a financial crisis? Can financial crises be anticipated or even avoided? What can be done to lessen their impact? Should governments and international institutions intervene? Or should financial crises be left to run their course? In the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis, many blamed...

The world of international finance - from Hong Kong to London, Tokyo to Zurich - explodes with nerve-wracking suspense in this extraordinary novel of money and passion, greed and power. At its center: handsome, ambitious Holden Chambers, a "lion" of Hong Kong international banking, and Barbara...

Two men were in Texas the day Kennedy was shot. One was Rupert Justice Tolliver, a poor preacher who boasted that he would one day be President. The other was Cobra, the Rhodesian assassin who, forty years later, would be hired to take Tolliver's life. In between is the story of the millennium: how...

CJ's Old Fashioned Cookbook is about Louisiana style cooking and homemade favorites. It has recipes that can be just right for a romantic evening with your soul mate to a party with all your family and friends. This book has all the flavors and styles to spice up your favorite dish. Whether it is...

Substantial progress in the fight against extreme poverty was made in the last two decades. But the slowdown in global economic growth and significant increases in income inequality in many developed and developing countries raise serious concerns about the continuation of this trend into the 21st...