Money & Monetary Policy

Few economic phenomena provoke as much confusion as money. From the first measures of value and the physical coins that circulated at the dawn human civilization to the era of 'virtual' money transmitted through cyberspace, it is ubiquitous and hugely...

The economies of the Eurozone countries are plagued by multiple crises, which cast major doubts over the future of the Euro. In this engaging new book, leading heterodox economist Malcolm Sawyer argues that the entire policy framework of the Eurozone was...

This book examines the case of nominal income targeting as a monetary policy rule. In recent years the most well-known nominal income targeting rule has been NGDP (level) Targeting, associated with a group of economists referred to as market monetarists...

For decades, science and technology (sci-tech) have influenced world trade, world economy, and international finance. However, their specific impacts are seldom known and related empirical studies are rare. Thus, we must quantify and empirically explore...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

This collection of essays aims to form a focused, original and constructive approach to examining the question of convergence and divergence in Europe.Book InformationISBN 9781138663312Author Patrice BaubeauFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint...

This book examines secessionism, separatism and calls for independence in the European Union, in recent history and within an economic context. The author connects the sensibility of romantic factors involved in secession such as language, religion or...

Intended as a successor to Monetary Policy and Credit Control (Croom Helm, 1978; Routledge Revivals, 2013), this book, first published in 1982 with a revised edition in 1984, traces the changes in approach to monetary control in the U.K. throughout the...

An illuminating history of America's original credit market. The Continental Dollar is a revelatory history of how the fledgling United States paid for its first war. Farley Grubb upends the common telling of this story, in which the United States...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637391303Author Matt ChandlerFormat PaperbackImprint Focus ReadersPublisher Focus ReadersWeight(grams) 178g

Over the last three decades, inflation targeting (IT) has become the most popular monetary policy framework among larger economies. At the same time, its constituting features leave room for different interpretations, translating into various central...

Caught up in the costly Napoleonic wars, Austria went into sovereign default in 1811. Five years later, the public authorities founded a national bank to be financed and run by private shareholders, the idea being that an independent bank would help...

This important book presents a theory of general equilibrium and was the first to present in condensed form the construction of the two-sector model, its applications to the theory of distribution and public finance for income redistribution, and its...

This book is about how the rise of democracy has transformed economics over the past 150 years. As voting was expanded to the masses in the late 19th century, political leaders faced emergent pressures to deliver prosperity to their newly enfranchised...

Martin Bronfenbrenner in the Journal of Finance had this to say when the book was first released "A thoughtful, scholarly, and systematic treatise on the economics of inflation. If this reviewer were asked to hang a course on inflation theory upon one...

The Federal Reserve System, created in the early 20th century, is now more than a hundred years old. This book takes the reader through the founding and first century of Federal Reserve monetary policy, and uses the analysis of the past to address the...

The Theory of Money and Finance, by the same author, provided an introduction to the basic theory and concluded by introducing the idea of monetary disequilibrium, with the money supply process operating through bank credit creation. First published in...

Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881323368Author Morris GoldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson Institute...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881321272Author C. Randall HenningFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson...

A unique and modern approach to money, wealth, greed, and financial ignorance presented via a story of a family in the Munich suburbs. The Federmanns live a pleasant but painfully normal life in the Munich suburbs. All that the three children really know...

Offering the first scholarly analysis of the economic nature of blockchains and the formation of the blockchain economy, this timely book explores the future of global capitalism. Applying the institutional economics of Ronald Coase and Oliver...

Eurozone Dystopia traces the origin of the Eurozone and shows how the historical Franco-German rivalry combined with the growing dominance of neo-liberal economic thinking to create a monetary system that was deeply flawed and destined to fail. William...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996161015Author Leonard S JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Johnson and AssociatesPublisher Johnson and AssociatesWeight(grams)...

The central thesis of the book is that in order to evaluate monetary policy, one should have a clear idea about the characteristics and functions of money as it evolved and in its current form. That is to say that without an understanding about how money...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944424442Author James DornFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Cato InstitutePublisher Cato InstituteWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642936650Author Charles GoyetteFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Alfred Marshall was anxious to do good. Intended by an Evangelical father for the vocation of clergyman, the author of the mould-shaping Principles of Economics remained to the end of his days a great preacher deeply committed to raising the tone of life...

Combining theory, empirical evidence, institutional analysis, and policy evaluation, the second edition of Money, Interest, and Banking in Economic Development provides a comprehensive overview of the role of monetary and financial economics in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088202494Author Georg Friedrich KnappFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 730g

This book provides an indispensable guide to the economic, political and diplomatic process that led to the creation of the European single market and the signing of the Maastricht Treaty. In this new, expanded edition Padoa-Schioppa presents a lucid...

This masterful book investigates and analyzes several aspects of money among the Yoruba of Nigeria. Falola and Adebayo explore the origin, philosophy, uses, politics, and problems of acquiring and spending money in Yoruba culture. No prior book exists on...

Germany's public savings banks - Sparkassen - are a remarkable and puzzling phenomena. No other advanced industrial country relies as heavily on such small, public financial institutions to fuel its economy and how is it that such small institutions can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985728359Author Joseph PlummerFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Brushfire PublishingPublisher Brushfire PublishingWeight(grams) 286g

A fact-based treatise on the Eurozone crisis, with analysis of possible solutions The Incomplete Currency is the only technical - yet accessible - analysis of the current Eurozone crisis from a global perspective. The discussion begins by explaining how...

A lucid, authoritative and comprehensive account of who owns the physical and financial wealth of the UK. How did the various people and institutions come to own the assets of the nation? What is their share of the assets worth? What are they doing with...

In this compelling book, the authors show how the mainstream notion of Global Value Chains obscures their capitalist character and introduce the alternative concept of Capitalist Value Chains. These chains are premised upon the internationalized...

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The Global Financial Crisis broke the monetary system. Here's how to fix it. In Making Money Work: How to Rewrite the Rules of Our Financial System, Matt Sekerke and Steve H. Hanke deliver a rigorous and fascinating exploration of the monetary economy...