Macroeconomics

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...

Management accounting has undergone significant evolution moving away from rigid budgeting programs and static output measures to comprehensive app...

This book examines new issues in financial markets and institutions raised by the global economic crisis that began in 2007. The four main themes a...

A survey of past financial crises, starting with the great banking collapses of the interwar period. The current turmoil has prompted a number of q...

This book explores implications of the modern view of central banks rising from the proposition that words have no meaning beyond their use in a pa...

This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global...

This book explores the causes and effects of the rise of neoliberalism in Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. It p...

The world's largest market is that for foreign exchange with a turnover running into trillions per day. The mystery is why this market is dominated...

The remarkably successful gold standard before 1914 was the first international monetary regime. This book addresses the experience of the gold sta...

Greening Auto Jobs: A Critical Analysis of the Green Job Solution details current and problematic understandings of what constitutes a green job. A...

Why do banks collapse? Are financial systems more fragile in recent decades? Can policies to fix the banking system do more harm than good? What's ...

The United States of Europe considers the post-WWII transition of Europe from a diverse and disparate continent to the economically integrated Euro...

The growth of urban areas and population in middle and low income countries is a continuing trend. Urbanization expands as rural to urban migration...

Master the principles of economics, and gain an understanding of current economic situations with the solid introduction and policy-based examples ...

The standard theory of decision making under uncertainty advises the decision maker to form a statistical model linking outcomes to decisions and t...

Non-Tariff Barriers, Regionalism and Poverty is a collection of key articles in three important areas of applied international trade research: meas...

Whether watching baseball or undergoing heart surgery, Americans have bought a variety of goods and services to achieve happiness. Here is a provoc...

A sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War, this book by Bray Hammond focuses on how...

The Handbook is a virtual encyclopedia of public financial management, written by topmost experts, many with a background in the IMF and World Bank...

By engaging in an ethnography of the social text of German, European and USA monetary affairs, this book introduces a new analytical framework that...

This sequel to the author's earlier well-received Euro On Trial, shows how European Monetary Union became a main engine of the global credit bubble...

This revised edition offers the most up-to-date advice for investors who wish to defend themselves, or even make a profit from, the blighted polici...

Overcentralization in Economic Administration (Oxford, 1959) was the first book written by an Eastern European and published in the West that openl...

The Changing Role of Central Banks derives lessons from current economic and financial challenges as well as failures in confronting them. Through ...

Euro Crash is a unique analysis of the European Monetary Union, arguing that it was not sub-optimal currency areas or profligate government spendin...

This study discusses and analyses the broad issues that have underpinned the current European economic crisis. It examines the experiences of three...

Today, the United States seems to be taking a leading role in anti-globalization. What impact will this have on the future of globalization and the...

This books explains, on the basis of archival evidence and a simple economic model, why and how the gold standard collapsed in the interwar period....

The 2007-2009 financial crisis has had a worldwide impact on banks and financial systems. It has also brought about major changes in Europe's finan...

Payday Lending looks at the growth of the high cost credit industry from the early payday lending industry in the early 1990s to its development in...

At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succ...

Bobby Hundreds has spent twenty years building his streetwear company, The Hundreds, to be as much a community as a brand. So when Bobby discovered...