Europe s financial crisis cannot be blamed on the Euro Harold James contends in this probing exploration of the whys whens whos and what-ifs of European monetary union. The current crisis goes deeper to a series of problems that were debated but not resolved at the... Lees meer.

Written by two expert economists this comprehensive Advanced Introduction provides a thorough and up-to-date analysis of central banks and monetary policy analysing the ways in which views about monetary policy have developed and changed. Elgar Advanced Introductio... Lees meer.

This book is a historical analysis of the gold standard from 1880-1914 focusing on the origins and workings of the gold standard as an international system. The system functioned smoothly until the onset of the First World War when the foundations began to weaken. By t... Lees meer.

What is a global recession. What is a global recovery. What really happens during these episodes. This book tracks the global business cycle through a global recession to recovery drawing on four major episodes in the past half century. It defines key terms documen... Lees meer.

Allan E. S. Lumba explores how the United States used monetary policy and banking systems to justify racial and class hierarchies enforce capitalist exploitation and counter movements for decolonization in the American colonial Philippines. In Monetary Authorities... Lees meer.

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21st Century Monetary Policy takes readers inside the Federal Reserve explaining what it does and why. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic the Federal Reserve deployed an extraordinary range of policy tools that helped prevent the collapse of the financial system and... Lees meer.

A New York Times BestsellerThe leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory -- the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades -- delivers a radically different bold new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous... Lees meer.

Did money matter in the economic history of medieval Europe. In these essays John Munro has pursued the controversies surrounding the monetary not monetarist history of the period specifically in relation to England and Flanders and the other Burgundian Low Coun... Lees meer.

Monetary problems are important and widely debated but the complexity of the international monetary system and the disparate systems that make it up gives rise to many fallacies about the inner workings of these systems. When shared by those who decide economic and mon... Lees meer.

Lucid accessible and provocative and now thoroughly updated to cover recent events that have shaken the global economy Globalizing Capital is an indispensable account of the past 150 years of international monetary and financial history. Essential reading for un... Lees meer.

Didier LAUSSEL William MAROIS and Antoine SOUBEYRAN The papers collected in this volume were presented at the 4th International Conference on Monetary Economics and Banking held in Aix-en-Provence on June 1987 and organized by the C.E.F.I. Didier LAUSSEL William... Lees meer.

In the only textbook to focus on both the costs and benefits of monetary unions Paul De Grauwe explores current issues surrounding the Eurozone and critically analyses the theories and policies relating to monetary union. Reflecting the most update-to-date coverage... Lees meer.

Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review. The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of... Lees meer.

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