Macroeconomics

The book is motivated by the disruptions introduced by the financial crisis and the many attempts that have followed to propose new ideas and remedies.

This book is the first comprehensive account of the numerous attempts made since the Second World War to provide food security for all.

This is a book about the discovery of macroeconomic ideas and concepts long before the term macroeconomics had been coined.

This Companion provides a review of global value chains (GVCs) and the megatrends that are shaping them and will continue to reshape them in deep-set trajectories of change over the next few decades.

In this wide-ranging book, Wall Street legend Henry Kaufman recounts the events surrounding the catastrophic collapse of Lehman Brothers from his then vantage point on the board.

Too many of the world's citizens face impoverished living standards.

Solid Forex strategies for capturing profits in today's volatile markets How to Make a Living Trading Foreign Exchange puts the world of Forex at your fingertips.

This book investigates the interaction of effective goods demand with the wage-price spiral, and the impact of monetary policy on financial and the real markets from a Keynesian perspective.

Stock Message Boards provides empirical data to reveal how online communication not only impacts stock returns, but also volatility, trading volume, and liquidity, as well as an investing firm's value and reputation.

The issue of economic development and monetary stability has produced one of the most passionate debates in economic literature.

This book provides critical insights on the systemic failures of corporate governance linked to the global financial crisis.

The traditional definition of development ethics considers the 'ethical and value questions posed by development theory, planning and practice' (Goulet 1977: 5).

This book provides an interesting review of Japanese monetary policies after the bubble economy.

Crowds move markets and at major market turning points, the crowds are almost always wrong.

In the current era of globalised financial markets, the stock market cannot be assessed solely by comparing quantitative features such as the number of listed companies or capitalisation on the stock exchange.

Marking the 30th anniversary of the formation of Orion Bank in 1970, financial historian Richard Roberts has written a history of Orion and the rise and decline of the consortium banking movement.

This title was first published in 2003.

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

Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, was one of the most original and controversial economists of the 20th century, both as a defender of free-market liberalism and a leading opponent of socialism and the interventionist-welfare state.

How did banking in early nineteenth-century Massachusetts evolve?

This book traces the growth of capitalism in South East Asia between 1870 and 1941, a crucial element in understanding contemporary economic and political developments in the region.

This book studies the impact of different sources of external finance on growth and development in different country contexts.

This book demonstrates the relevance of the historical perspective with respect to national and international payment systems.

This general introduction to the theory of money and of balance of payments adjustment was originally published in 1969.

The book's central theme is to develop a new theory of speculative capital related to other forms of capital, the world market, and the state.

Over the past two decades, several sudden, unforeseen, and significant changes have occurred in the world's political and economic landscape.

A comprehensive study of recent bilateral and regional trade agreements.

This book will sharpen the core decision-making skills of budding managers and entrepreneurs through the concepts, logic, and principles of microeconomics used in the book with suitable examples and cases from multiple industries from across the world.

India is one of the major emerging economies of the world and has witnessed tremendous economic growth over the last decades.

As Wall Street rose to dominate the U.

In this collection of 16 articles, top scholars synthesize and analyze scholarship on this widely used tool of policy analysis, setting forth its accomplishments, difficulties, and means of implementation.

Pourquoi l'abandon du franc et le passage à l'euro suscitent tant d'émotions ?

Written in honor of Emeritus Professor Georges Prat (University of Paris Nanterre, France), this book includes contributions from eminent authors on a range of topics that are of interest to researchers and graduates, as well as investors and portfolio managers.

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.

With the Taiwan experience as background, the major theme of this conference is to examine prospective economic development of Taiwan in the 1990s and beyond, together with discussions of the economic development of other countries in the Pacific Rim.

In a world grappling with resource depletion and environmental degradation, this work empowers readers to foster sustainable urban environments, while promoting a deeper understanding of the intricate relationship between new technologies and cutting-edge economic theory.

Challenges traditional views on development to show the direction of causality is from income to institutions.

Originally published in 1940, this book traces the development of theories concerning currency and credit from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth.

This title was first published in 2000: An in depth analysis of employment and technology issues in the housing and construction industries of developing countries, in the context of globalization of economies and increased opportunities for advanced technology transfer.

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This book explores the present conflictual relationship between the economy, the environment, and society.

Few theologians in history have matched Bernard Lonergan's range of learning.

intense competition on banks and other financial institutions, as a period of oligopoly ends: more rather than less innovation is needed to help share undi- versifiable risks, with more attention to correlations between different risks.

This textbook invites the reader to develop a holistic grounding in mathematical finance, where concepts and intuition play as important a role as powerful mathematical tools.

Economic reforms in China began in 1979 and initiated some of the most fundamental changes ever to occur in any country.

The book provides a critical analysis of the legal mechanisms that help shape the capitalist system, and also makes proposals for deploying these tools in a different manner.

In the wake of the Greek crisis, the future of the EU is the subject of a great deal of debate.

The book studies the trends that led to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, as well as the unfolding of the crisis, in order to provide policy recommendations to improve financial stability.