The Global Economic System: How Liquidity Shocks Affect Financial Institutions and Lead to Economic Crises

Written for financial professionals, the authors thoroughly explain the modern global credit system; the roles of banks, hedge funds, insurers, central banks, mortgage markets, and other participants; and the credit-related instruments they rely on. In particular, the authors illuminate the crucial importance of liquidity, and show why liquidity failures have been the key cause of all major market crashes for the past several decades. 

The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy offers insights into the boundaries of this field of study, assesses why it is important, who is affected, and with what political, economic, social and cultural consequences. Provides the most up to date and comprehensive collection of essays from top scholars in the fieldIncludes contributions from western and eastern Europe, North and Central America, Africa and AsiaOffers new conceptual frameworks and new methodologies for mapping the contours of emergent global media and communication policy

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Cell is an apocalyptic horror novel published by American author Stephen King in January 2006.
The plot concerns a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell-phone network turns masses of his fellow humans into telekinetic hive-mind zombies.
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Spotlight 7/2012

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Living in the End Times by Slavoj Žižek

Zizek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the “four riders of the apocalypse.” The underlying premise of the book is a simple one: the global capitalist system is approaching an apocalyptic zero-point.