Money Monetary Policy category: 1222 books

Conflicts over currency valuations are a recurrent feature of the modern global economy. To strengthen their international competitiveness, many countries resort to buying foreign currencies to make their exports cheaper and their imports more expensive. In the first decade of the twenty-first century,...

A Financial Times Book of the Year, 2015 An Economist Best Book of the Year, 2015 A Bloomberg Best Book of the Year, 2015 The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure...

That we need money to live like it or not is a self-evident truism. Right? Not anymore. Drawing on almost three years of experience as The Moneyless Man, ex-businessman Mark Boyle not only demystifies money and the system that binds us to it, he also explains how liberating, easy and enjoyable it is...

An incisive introduction to global finance—where money comes from, the current mechanisms, and the need for control and reform. It traces the origins of money as a source of exchange and a store of value and the many weird forms it now takes—visible and invisible. The guide sets recent...

The quality of financial integration is one of Europe’s principal concerns in the aftermath of the great crisis. The lack of risk sharing lies at the heart of the financial instability produced by the rapid retrenchment of capital flows within national boundaries. The limited cross-border banking...

Of, By, For is a compilation of thoughts, analysis, and short essays on American politics. The underlying theme; American politics is both corrupt and dysfunctional. Its conclusion; American political economy must be democratically reformed, using both the knowledge we have from the past and imagination...

This entertaining and thought-provoking story set in the allegorical land of 'Fantopia' dismantles the myth about money creation and exposes the banking system as having shackled the World's peoples with crippling unrepayable debt. As a result, we are burdened by a National Debt which grows astronomically...

A short preface notes Canada cancels penny production, worries about too much money priming by the US Federal Reserve. Chapter 1 suggests that in place redenominated currency is a better way to maintain stability and finance debt than simply increasing money at the current value dollar. For 'in situ'...

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Digital currency and blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt a whole host of industries from financial services to manufacturing, supply chain management, and to health care records,...

This excellent new book from one of the brightest young economists, Giuseppe Fontana, involves a compendium of issues surrounding uncertainty, money and time. Fontana shines a post Keynesian light onto statements and claims made by well-known neo-classical authors and as such leaves readers with an interesting and informative book to be read a

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.   There are few indictments of the American banking system as searing as Other People’s Money and How the Bankers Use It, written by Louis D. Brandeis in 1913. Long considered one of the major muckraking...

This book represents the second of three volumes offering a complete reinterpretation and restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and a detailed investigation of the disequilibrium adjustment processes characterizing the financial, the goods and the labour markets and their interaction. In...

At the start of 2017, one Bitcoin was worth approximately $1,600; by the end of the year, it was worth more than $16,000. While 2018 is unlikely to see a repeat of such extreme growth, there is still plenty of money to be made in Bitcoins, as long as you know what you are doing. If you are interested...

This book is a sort of guidance book to be an instant and permanent Billionaire told via the funny story of David, the poor shepherd and the golden talking frog. This story will let you know about how to make money from your beloved career, saving, investment, how to leverage your money and money...