Overview

The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 offers a comprehensive analysis of the most severe economic collapse since the Great Depression. This scholarly work examines the crisis from its origins in the U.S. subprime mortgage market through its devastating global transmission across continents. The book explores the complex interplay of factors that triggered the crisis-including excessive lending, financial derivatives, weak oversight, and regulatory failures-while analyzing how it spread from Wall Street to Europe, Asia, and developing nations. Through four detailed chapters, the authors provide both theoretical frameworks for understanding financial crises and practical insights into the emergency interventions, fiscal stimulus plans, and regulatory reforms that followed. Drawing on extensive research and international perspectives, this work serves as an essential resource for students, researchers, and policymakers seeking to understand how financial systems fail, how crises spread globally, and how societies can build more resilient economic structures to prevent future collapses.