Crisis Contagion from Advanced Economies into BRIC: Not as Simple as in the Old Days - Constantin Gurdgiev and Barry Trueick Turning Tigers into PIIGS: The Role of Leverage in the Irish Economic Collapse - Shaen Corbet Manhattan is not New York: The Divergent Import of the Great Recession and Natural Disasters on New York City’s Five Boroughs - Carolyn E. Predmore and Lauren Trabold UNASUR-GRID: Financing Sustainable Energy Sovereignty with the Bank of the South - Tony Phillips On the Effects of Commodities Prices on Sustainable Development: An Opportunity? - Maria Aristizabal-Ramirez and Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza Improving Post-2015 Development Cooperation through Donor Support for Inclusive Business - Maria Alejandra Pineda-Escobar and Fabian Garzon-Cuervo The Great Recession and Emerging Market Firms: Unpacking the Divide between Global and National Level Sustainability Expectations - Luis Alfonso Dau, Elizabeth Marie Moore and Margaret Soto Global Financial Crisis and the Emergence and Maturing of Socially Responsible Investments - Carolina Herrera-Cano and Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez After the Flood Comes the Tax: European Road to Financial Transactions Tax - Constantin Gurdgiev and Barry Murphy Networked Social Movements and the Politics of Mortgage: From the Right to Housing to the Assault on Institutions - Eva Alvarez de Andres, Patrik Zapata and Mar?a Jose Zapata Campos Solar Eclipse: Investment Treaty Arbitration and Spain’s Photovoltaic Troubles - Ioannis Glinavos Capital for the Twenty-First Century: A Response to ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ by Thomas Piketty - Amelia Correa and Romar Correa

Edited by Constantin Gurdgiev, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Liam Leonard, California State University, Fullerton, CA, USA Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Universidad Eafit, Medellin, Colombia