Macroeconomics

This book takes a global approach, with an emphasis on North and Latin America respectfully, by discussing one of today's most controversial topics...

In this ground-breaking, two-volume study of the adjustment of advanced welfare states to international economic pressures, leading scholars detail...

The view that the Internet and the information and communication technology (ICT) revolution would deliver a frictionless economy without recession...

The crisis in Asia has caused economic hardship and brought an end to the 'economic miracle' of fast economic growth in the region. This book asks ...

The sixth volume in the FIEF Studies in Labour Markets and Economic Policy series is a contribution to the empirical literature on endogenous growt...

This book provides an indispensable guide to the economic, political and diplomatic process that led to the creation of the European single market ...

Covering all the essential topics for undergraduate courses, this is the ideal student introduction to game theory. The book sets out the basics of...

The first twenty years of the European Central Bank (ECB) offer a clear demonstration of how a central bank can navigate macroeconomic insecurity a...

Since the financial crisis of 2008-09, central bankers around the world have been forced to abandon conventional monetary policy tools in favour of...

In the current era of globalised financial markets, the stock market cannot be assessed solely by comparing quantitative features such as the numbe...

There is wide consensus on the importance of knowledge for economic growth and local development patterns. This book proposes a view of knowledge a...

Over forty years after the formal end of colonialism, suffocating ties to Western financial systems continue to prevent African countries from achi...

The book provides deep insight into theoretical and empirical evidence on information and communication technologies (ICT) as an important factor a...

This book delves into the many innovative changes that the financial industry has undergone in recent years. The authors investigate these developm...

The existence of fiat currencies has long been cited as one of the major contributing factors to the challenges facing contemporary economies, and ...

This book reveals the surprising role that credit, money created ex nihilo by financiers, played in raising the British government’s war loans betw...

Since the 1990s, several emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) have, to varying degrees, embraced the process of financial globalisation...

With the spread of interest-based transactions, major problems such as inequality, poverty and debt-based slavery have emerged. Those who practiced...

This book offers a novel understanding of money by moving away from the dominant lens of economics through which it is usually seen.In contrast to ...

This book applies finance to the field of capital theory. While financial economics is a well-established field of study, the specific application ...

The authors of this book argue that post-war fiscal and monetary policies in the U.S. are prone to more frequent and more destabilizing domestic an...

Examines the balance between the market, government and civic sectors and makes comparisons with other postcommunist countries.

This edited collection seeks to advance thinking on money and the monetary nature of the economy, macroeconomic analysis and economic policy, setti...

This book provides an up-to-date reading of Capital Volume I, emphasizing the relevance of Marx's analysis to everyday twenty-first century struggl...

This book is an account of one of the central issues in economics, namely the potential of the free market system to solve social and economic prob...

Austerity, fiscal consolidation, fiscal discipline and fiscal deficit targets have become the buzzwords of contemporary macroeconomic policy. By tr...

Despite the dynamic development of the discipline of economics, the ways in which economics is taught and how it defines its basic principles have ...

Historians, since the 1960s, argue that the French economy performed as well as did any economy in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth cent...

Despite the dynamic development of the discipline of economics, the ways in which economics is taught and how it defines its basic principles have ...

Intertemporal Macroeconomics is the first text to offer a unified and systematic exposition of the key issues, both traditional and new, in dynamic...

This book is a comparative evaluation of the main theories of business cycles. The book begins with a brief statistical description of US business ...

The Economics of Being Poor is mainly devoted to the economics of acquiring skills and knowlede, to investment in the quality of the population and...

Speculations about the effects of politics on economic life have a long and vital tradition, but few efforts have been made to determine the precis...

Wherever there is money, there is money politics-a subject demanding ever greater attention at a time when monetary policies lead and the real econ...

This short, concrete, and to-the-point book guides students through this vast field of conflicting opinions. The book begins from the premise that ...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians have seen the ruble steadily lose ground to alternative means of payment such as barter and privat...

From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, this comprehensive reference work covers the monetary systems of 203 countries and four confederations. It provide...

Like the successful and widely-adopted first edition, this second edition is designed to explain the concept of rational expectations and its impli...

Africa is a diverse continent. But is there a pattern to the diversity? Are there commonalities across the countries? And what does economics tell ...

The Great Depression and the Great Recession are the two great economic crises of the past hundred years. While there are accounts of both episodes...

Learning about entrepreneurship has major implications for the way we understand economic change and progress. At a time when governments all over ...

In Money, Income and Time, Alvaro Cencini examines how money has been alternatively defined as a commodity and as the general equivalent of all com...

Written by a former World Bank economist, How Does My Country Grow? distils growth policy lessons from the author's first-hand experience in Poland...

An accessible guide to trading the fast-moving foreign exchange market The foreign exchange market, or forex, was once dominated by global banks, ...