Monetary Economics

When Emily Martin delivered the annual Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures at the University of Rochester in 1986, she took as her subject the meaning of m...

With $4.5 trillion in total assets, the People’s Bank of China now surpasses the U.S. Federal Reserve as the world’s biggest central bank. The Rise...

Europe’s financial crisis cannot be blamed on the Euro, Harold James contends in this probing exploration of the whys, whens, whos, and what-ifs of...

We use money every day. Yet the practice of exchanging paper or bytes for goods and services seems absurd if you think about it. Naked Money explor...

Winner of the 2010 Hayek Book Prize given by the Manhattan Institute "Money, Markets and Sovereignty is a surprisingly easy read, given the complic...

Using simple but rigorously defined mathematical models, Thomas Quint and Martin Shubik explore monetary control in a simple exchange economy. Exam...

By the end of the nineteenth century, the world was ready to adopt the gold standard out of concerns of national power, prestige, and anti-English ...

Markets are artifacts of language - so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched look at central banks and the people who run them. Workin...

United States monetary policy has traditionally been modeled under the assumption that the domestic economy is immune to international factors and ...

Over the past fifteen years, a significant number of industrialized and middle-income countries have adopted inflation targeting as a framework for...

Markets are artifacts of language - so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched look at central banks and the people who run them. Workin...

Drawing on a trove of previously confidential data, Strained Relations reveals the evolution of US policy regarding currency market intervention, a...

What constitutes a sovereign wealth fund is contested. In general, however, it is a state-sponsored institutional investor that is answerable only ...

Few economic phenomena provoke as much confusion as money. From the first measures of value and the physical coins that circulated at the dawn huma...

Few economic phenomena provoke as much confusion as money. From the first measures of value and the physical coins that circulated at the dawn huma...

The cryptocurrency world has transformed in a few short years from a niche subculture to a parallel economic universe, reaching a market capitaliza...

In this authoritative and gripping book—the first full account of the 1976 International Monetary Fund crisis—Kathleen Burk and Alec Cairncross pee...