The road to prosperity

how to grow our economy and revive the American Dream

A powerful argument for the principles and policies required to grow the American economy Written by Patrick Toomey, president of the influential Club for Growth, this book addresses the low-tax, limited government approach needed to revive the American economy. Divided into three comprehensive parts, it ...

End the fed

During the 2008 presidential campaign over 4,000 students gathered at the University of Michigan to hear Republican Party candidate Ron Paul speak. As he began to address the topics of monetary policy and the coming depression, a chant came from the crowd, 'End the ...

In fed we trust

Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic

This breakout book on the financial crisis is Pulitzer Prize-winner Wessel's inside account of the struggle of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his financial firefighters to keep the Great Panic from becoming the next Great Depression.

Making sense of the dollar

Exposing dangeorus myths about trade and foreign exchange

Has the credit crisis forever tainted the U.S. dollar? Will the euro or the yuan replace the U.S. dollar as the world's currency? Marc Chandler argues convincingly that many people are wrongly pessimistic about both the dollar and the U.S. economy ...

The economics of large-value payments and settlement

theory and policy issues for central banks

Eds. Mark Manning, Erlend Nier, Jochen Schanz. Central banks have over the past few years devoted considerable resource to the study of the economics of payments. In parallel, this field has begun to establish itself as a new subject for scholarly research, drawing in academic ...

Monetary economics

Eds. Steven N, Durlauf, Lawrence E. Blume. The New Palgrave Economics Collection Following the publication of the award-winning and much-acclaimed The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, which brings together Nobel Prize winners and the brightest young scholars to survey the discipline, a new ...

Monetary economics in globalised financial markets

This book integrates the fundamentals of monetary theory, monetary policy theory and financial market theory, providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the many-sided interrelations between these fields of research. It provides the reader with the intellectual groundwork indispensable for understanding the workings and interactions ...

Money employment and inflation

This is a textbook on macroeconomic theory that attempts to rework the theory of macroeconomic relations through a re-examination of their microeconomic foundations. In the tradition of Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (published in 1936), and Patinkin's Money, Interest, and ...

The Euro

its origins, development and prospects

This important new book provides a non-technical, comprehensive overview of the central issues surrounding the euro. Following an introduction to the origins of European integration, the authors proceed to examine the first concrete steps in the process that led to the creation of the euro ...

The Monetary policy of the Federal Reserve

a history

Details the evolution of the monetary standard from the start of the Federal Reserve through the end of the Greenspan era. The book places that evolution in the context of the intellectual and political environment of the time. By understanding the fitful process of replacing ...

The politics of public money

spenders, guardians, priority setters, and financial watchdogs inside the Caadian Government

Public money is perhaps the quintessential currency of influence for politicians and public servants inside government. It shapes how they undertake the nation's business and it impacts on the standards of living in the country. "The Politics of Public Money" examines the extent to ...

The evolution of monetary policy and banking in the US

A concise analysis of the evolution of monetary policy and banking institutions over the past sixty years that stresses the dynamic interactions between the Federal Reserve and banking institutions that resulted from financial market innovations. Institutions were influenced by increasing competition in markets and monetary ...

Money, financial intermediation and governance

Dino Falaschetti and Michael Orlando unify the treatment of the many deeply related topics in money and banking in this wide-ranging book. By continually building on the assumption that economic actors are maximizers, they explain how monetary and financial services, as well as related governance ...

Le syndrome de la monnaie

vers une économie de marcgé sans crise

Le syndrome de la monnaie Vers une économie de marché sans crise Ce livre, contraire aux conventions puisqu'il ne parle que d'argent, informe, dans un langage clair et intelligible, aussi bien le profane que l'initié, sur le rôle que joue la monnaie ...

Exchange rates and international finance

The international landscape of the world economy changes with each edition of Exchange Rates and International Finance. None more so, however, than with publication of the fifth edition at a time when the world is moving away from dollar and Euro domination and newly- important ...

El dinero como empresa privada: un sistema monetario apolítico. El nuevo enfoque de la libertad

E. C. Riegel (1879-1953), abogado de los consumidores y estudioso independiente del dinero, confió siempre en que las mejoras de base en el sistema del comercio harían más por la libertad y el bienestar individual que cualquier reforma política. En el centro de estas mejoras ...

Modern perspectives on the gold standard

Eds. Tamim Bayoumi, Barry Eichengree, Mark P. Taylor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Currency crises in Europe and Mexico during the 1990s provided stark reminders of the importance and the fragility of international financial markets. These experiences led some commentators to conclude that open international capital markets are incompatible with ...

Central banks as economic institutions

Ed. Jean-Philippe Touffut. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------The number of central banks in the world is approaching 180, a tenfold increase since the beginning of the twentieth century. What lies behind the spread of this economic institution? What underlying process has brought central banks to hold such a key ...

International economic indicators and central banks

This book presents an in-depth look at the investment implications of international indicators and foreign central banks. This book fills a major information void on measures of international economic performance. It discusses how major industrial countries measure and report their national economic performance information and ...

Monetary regimes and inflation

history, economic and political relationships

This book explores the characteristics of inflations, comparing historical cases from Roman times up to the modern day. High and moderate inflations caused by the inflationary bias of political systems and economic relationships - and the importance of different monetary regimes in containing them - are analysed ...