For decades, economic policymakers have worshipped at the altar of combating inflation, reducing public deficits, and discouraging risky behavior by investors.
Money is a core feature in all discussions of economic crisis, as is clear from the debates about the responses of the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States to the 2008 economic crisis.
Originally published in 1959, this book contains in straightforward language a general account of the major variables significant for the analysis of economic development.
How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D.
The financial services technology industry is booming and promises to change the way we manage our money online, disrupting the current landscape of the industry.
Banking historiography often does not sufficiently take into account bankers' deliberations of their decision making, but rather limits investigation to considerations of profit maximisation.
The intensifying pace of globalization has led to a questioning of the traditional approaches to governance at the corporate, national and international levels.
International Macroeconomics for Business and Political Leaders explains the fundamentals of international macroeconomics in a very efficient and approachable text.
The advent of digital stablecoins and the continuing decline of cash are prompting central banks across the world to explore developing their own digital currencies.
The recent economic events driven by the great financial crisis of 2007-08 has challenged some "e;dogma"e;, highlighting various limits and drawbacks of current paradigms.
Following the British referendum held on June 23, 2016, voters supported the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union (EU) (Brexit), a starting point for the third round of European crisis, following the eurozone debt crisis and the migration crisis.
A very commonly observed phenomenon in developing and emerging market economies is the use of another country's currency (whether the US dollar or another currency) in lieu or in addition to the local currency.
Reprinting the second edition (which included a new introduction explaining developments which had emerged since first publication) this book discusses explorations in the fundamental theory of a monetary economy, a theoretical critique of the 'Phillips Curve' approach to the theory of inflation and the theory of the term structure of interest rates in terms of the theory of forward markets pioneered by David Meiselman.
Originally published in 1961, this book became widely used as a textbook, as an important source of primary data on British government expenditure statistics and as the point of departure for further empirical and analytical studies of the behaviour of governments.
This reissue, first published in 1982, is the first of two volumes on the causes and cure of Stagflation - the two-headed monster that combines mass unemployment with rapid inflation, which affected contemporary economies across the industrially developped world in the 1970s.
BITCOIN, CRYPTOCURRENCY, BLOCKCHAIN, NFTS, DEFI, METAVERSE— THESE WORDS DESCRIBE THE NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND THE BIRTH OF RADICALLY DISRUPTIVE DIGITAL CURRENCIES.
European economies have been plagued by successive crises, from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) to the COVID-19 pandemic, through to the economic and geopolitical instability in Ukraine.
Contemporary financial markets have been characterized by sociocultural phenomena such as "e;meme stocks"e;, the Gamestop short squeeze, and "e;You Only Live Once (YOLO) trading"e;.