Macroeconomics

Bankers and speculators build castles in the air but when they come crashing down ordinary people have to pick up the tab.

A study of the power struggle between Germany''s central bank and the West German government to control monetary policy in the post-war era.

Two prominent features of the current global economy are the world-wide recession brought about by the recent financial crisis, and the emergence of major economic powers from within the developing world such as Brazil, China and India.

Leading world scholars analyze a range of specific departures from general equilibrium theory which have significant implications for the macroeconomic analysis of both developed and developing economies.

As Ghana approaches its 60th birthday, optimism and worries for the future continue to be present in equal measure.

Social Accounting Systems: Essays on the State of the Art contains essays prepared during a workshop aimed at the development and promulgation of objectives for future work on social accounting, and the making of recommendations to achieve them by evaluating existing demographic and time-based accounting models.

Treating the market economy as a complex adaptive system offers a better explanation of how it works than does the mechanical analogy of neoclassical equilibrium theory.

Many important economic and political debates today refer to the nature and the role of the State: should governments intervene in the economy and interfere with the operation of markets?

This book develops a new theoretical framework to examine the issues of economic growth and development.

Do high rates of economic growth create conditions favourable to their own maintenance?

Markov chains have increasingly become useful way of capturing stochastic nature of many economic and financial variables.

Drawing on the most prominent research in the field, this timely book offers bold new fiscal policies that can complement current automatic stabilizers and counter-cyclical monetary policy to help combat recessions.

This book describes the rise of the Swiss Franc to its current status as a strong currency of international importance.

In recent years econometricians have examined the problems of diagnostic testing, specification testing, semiparametric estimation and model selection.

Historical narrative integrated with graphs based on a unique dataset chronicle the last 200 years of monetary history in Norway.

"Geld" ist in modernen Volkswirtschaft einerseits unbestrittene Notwendigkeit, andererseits Objekt sowohl sachlicher wie auch emotionaler Diskussion.

Economists wish to compare prices, real income, and output across countries and regions for many purposes.

Governments all round the world are facing problems with their public finances.

In 1878 Karl Marx developed the reproduction schema: his model of how total capital is produced and reproduced.

From bank bailouts to austerity, Europe's and Ireland's response to the economic crisis has been engineered specifically to shift the burden of paying for the crisis onto ordinary citizens while investors, financiers, bankers and the privileged are protected.

This book approaches the question of the relation between financial crises and earnings management from two philosophical perspectives: positivism and critical realism.

This Palgrave Pivot uses Marxian economic categories and analysis to explore the deeper causes of the 2008 global economic crisis, what the crisis represents for capitalism, and why fiscal and monetary policies pursued in its wake have failed to rejuvenate economies.

Now in its fifth edition, this book offers a detailed yet concise introduction to the growing field of statistical applications in finance.

Historians of our financial system will record this as an age of deregulation and bank mergers.

This volume develops an original critique of the belief that the present era of finance, where finance markets dominate contemporary capitalist economies, represents the best possible way of organising economic affairs.

This book collects selected articles addressing several currently debated issues in the field of international macroeconomics.

Macroeconomic Modelling has undergone radical changes in the last few years.

This book draws on a range of theoretical foundations, approaches and management practices that are culturally and jurisdictionally appropriate in several Muslim countries.

Modern business cycle theory and growth theory uses stochastic dynamic general equilibrium models.

Up-to-date, holistic and comprehensive discussion of public expenditure, its history, value for money, risks and remedies.

The Socialist Industrial State (1976) examines the state-socialist system, taking as the central example the Soviet Union - where the goals and values of Marxism-Leninism and the particular institutions, the form of economy and polity, were first adopted and developed.

For centuries Japan, although a totalitarian dictatorship, was ruled by figureheads who signed laws formulated 'behind the screen'.

After seven long years of economic malaise, it is clear that something has gone awry in Japan.

This book focuses on the economic challenges India has been facing since its independence in 1947.

This book presents the most current trends in the field of finance and accounting from an international perspective.

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 book the author develops a new approach to uncertainty in economics, which calls for a fundamental change in the methodology of economics.

This book delves into the intricacies of digital assets.

Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union (1933) is a valuable historical document that presents a verbatim report of the trials of various Soviet and British engineers and workers accused of acts of sabotage against the Soviet energy infrastructure.

During the last century, we have witnessed the birth and evolution of sport as an economic activity, which has created jobs on the one hand, but also problems of management on the other.

Now that the process of full implementation of European Monetary Union has begun, it is time to shift attention away from the process of introduction to the implications that the common currency will have for a wide range of institutions and policy areas.

This book interprets the historical evolution of how and why the international monetary system has been transformed.

The Federal Reserve System, created in the early 20th century, is now more than a hundred years old.

The 2008 international crisis has revived the interest in Keynes's theories and, in particular, on Minsky's models of financial fragility.

Innovations in financial markets and in financial management, together with dramatic innovations in the substance and technique of monetary theory, have made it necessary to restate the theory of money and the theory of monetary policy.