James Barth: 10 books
by Franklin Allen, Glenn Yago, James Barth
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
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....
The Rise and Fall of the US Mortgage and Credit Markets
A Comprehensive Analysis of the Market Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
The mortgage meltdown: what went wrong and how do we fix it?
Owning a home can bestow a sense of security and independence. But today, in a cruel twist, many Americans now regard their homes as a source of worry and dashed expectations. How did everything go haywire? And what can we do about...
Fixing the Housing Market
Financial Innovations for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
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...
Guardians of Finance
Making Regulators Work for Us
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
How the unaccountable, unmonitorable, and unchecked actions of regulators precipitated the global financial crisis; and how to reform the system.
The recent financial crisis was an accident, a “perfect storm” fueled by an unforeseeable confluence of events that unfortunately combined to...
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth
Developing Evidence-Based International Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support.
Featuring contributions from distinguished international contributors, it critically examines...
The First Great Financial Crisis of the 21st Century
A Retrospective
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Although there have been numerous studies of the causes and consequences of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007–2010 in the US and abroad, many of these were undertaken only for a small number of countries and before the financial and economic effects were fully realized and before various governmental...
by James R. Barth, Robert E. Litan, R.Dan Brumbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The future of American banking is in doubt and the industry and the federal insurance fund that helps support it are in turmoil. The ingredients of the turmoil have been simmering in public view since at least the early 1980s when commercial bank loans to lesser developed countries (LDCs) began to...
The Child Welfare Challenge
Policy, Practice, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. This text focuses on families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded...
by Douglas W Martin, Robert J Barth, James B Talmage
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is a controversial issue in medicine. This book provides the most up to date universal review of the construct known as CRPS. The authors review the history of the diagnosis and offer an evidence based criticism regarding the development of the CRPS nomenclature. Chapters...