Macroeconomics

Islamic societies of the past have often been characterized as urban, with rural and other extra-urban landscapes cast in a lesser or supporting ro...

In this edited collection, Joseph Stiglitz and Martin Guzman present a series of studies on contemporary macroeconomic issues. The book discusses a...

In this edited collection, Joseph Stiglitz and Martin Guzman present a series of studies on contemporary macroeconomic issues. The book discusses a...

Written by fifteen leading academics from the Japan Society for International Development (JASID), this book undertakes a review of Japan's economi...

As the Federal Reserve System conducts its latest review of the strategies, tools, and communication practices it deploys to pursue its dual-mandat...

Macroeconomics presents macroeconomic theory in a big-picture way. The text focuses on a single model, to provide you with a clear understanding of...

Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries--but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, whil...

An authoritative and comprehensive graduate textbook on the modern insurance sectorThe traditional role of insurers is to insure idiosyncratic risk...

This state-of-the-art volume presents comparative, empirical research on a topic that has long preoccupied scholars, politicians, and everyday citi...

In Lifecycle Events and Their Consequences: Job Loss, Family Change, and Declines in Health, editors Kenneth A. Couch, Mary C. Daly, and Julie Ziss...

This state-of-the-art volume presents comparative, empirical research on a topic that has long preoccupied scholars, politicians, and everyday citi...

An authoritative graduate textbook on information choice, an exciting frontier of research in economics and financeMost theories in economics and f...

In its 1981 Budget, the Thatcher government discarded Keynesian counter-cyclical policies and cut Britain's public sector deficit in the depths of ...

Financial capitalism emerged in a recognisably modern form in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Great Britain. Following the seminal work of...

This book is an authoritative account of the economic and political roots of the 2008 financial crisis. It examines why it was triggered in the Uni...

Allan H. Meltzer (1928-2017), a leading monetary economist of the twentieth century, is memorialized in eleven essays by prominent economists. Amon...

Principles play a crucial role in any dispute settlement system, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) is no exception. However, WTO Panels and th...

This book deals with the structural origins of economic and financial crises. It explains that both economic theories and policies need to be groun...

The recent crisis has redrawn attention to financial globalization. Dilip Das examines under what circumstances it can be welfare-enhancing and lea...

A Great Deal of Ruin provides an accessible introduction to the enduring problem of financial crises. Illustrated with historical analysis, case st...

The birth and death of firms is one of the main features of the business cycle. Yet mainstream DGSE macroeconomic models mostly ignore this phenome...

The Bank of England and the Government Debt recounts the surprising history of the Bank of England's activities in the government securities market...

This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early ...

This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early ...

It is common wisdom that central banks in the postwar (19451970s) period were passive bureaucracies constrained by fixed-exchange rates and inflati...

Government interventions in market failures can encounter objections from those who doubt their efficacy. Acocella, a leading expert on economic po...

The International Money Game has been fully rewritten to take account of changes in the world economy. It provides a comprehensive overview of inte...

The latest book by journalist and author Paul Blustein to go behind the scenes at the highest levels of global economic policy making, Laid Low chr...

'We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the many and prepare the ground for reversing the absurdities of capitalism.' Yanis ...

Traditional money and banking textbooks are long, expensive, and full of so much institutional and technical modeling detail that students cannot u...

Markets respond to disturbances by changing prices and output to reach a new equilibrium. It's automatic, a function of the 'self-interest' of mark...

This volume is a history of economics as it was interpreted, discussed and established as a discipline in the 20th century. It highlights the plu...

This book provides a systematic account of financial crisis in the developing world by exploring how Minsky's theory may be extended to countries a...

The Global Financial Crisis is acknowledged to be the most severe economic downturn since the 1930s, and one that is unique in its underlying cause...

Iceland became one of the symbols of the global financial crisis. It provides an ideal test case for the perceptions of economists, in particular t...

The book presents arguments against the taxpayers'-funded bailing out of failed financial institutions, and puts forward suggestions to circumvent ...

This book gives a detailed account of the primacy of the City of London, both as a domestic actor and as a global financial centre. It focuses on w...

The historical response to bank crises has always been more regulation. A pattern emerges that some may find surprising: regulation often contribut...

This book introduces the reader to the 'world of finance', more exactly to one core activity: investment banking. Analysing the practices of trader...