This book presents to the reader the economic, fiscal and financial crises in world history that have had a great impact on the entire world and the fiscal measures taken by governments to combat each crisis since the 1600s in chronological order. Such events are often described as Black Swans, a concept introduced by economist and risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb in the bookFooled By Randomnessin 2001, in reference to events that were thought to be impossible but had a huge impact when they did happen.The first part of the book discusses the crisis models in order to allow the reader to...