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  • Money In Crisis

    The Return of Instability and the Myth of Digital Cash

    by Ignazio Angeloni, Daniel Gros ...
    From its origins in ancient Mesopotamia, through the advent of coinage in ancient Greece and Rome and the invention of paper currency in medieval China, the progress of finance and money has been driven by technological developments. The great technological change of our age in relation to money centres on the creation of digital money and digital payment systems. Money in Crisis explains what the ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Banking Union as a Shock Absorber

    Lessons for the Eurozone from the US

    by Daniel Gros, Ansgar Belke ...
    The Great Financial Crisis, which started in 2007-08, was originally called the ‘sub-prime’ crisis because its origins could be traced to excessive lending in the real estate sector in the US, concentrated mostly in sunbelt states like Nevada, Florida and California. There were similar pockets of excess lending for housing in Europe, notably in Ireland and Spain. But a key difference emerged later ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Britain's Future in Europe

    The Known Plan A to Remain or the Unknown Plan B to Leave

    by Michael Emerson, Karel Lannoo, Graham Avery, Arno Behrens, Jorge Nunez Ferrer, Hugo Brady, Michael Wriglesworth, Miroslav Beblavy, Alzbeta Hajkova, Steven Blockmans0, Steven Peers1, Daniel Gros2 ...
    Following the agreement made by Prime Minister David Cameron with the EU on 18-19 February 2016, the day for the referendum for the UK to remain in or leave the EU is set for 23 June 2016. This will be the most important decision taken by the British people in half a century, and whose consequences will live on for another half century.The first edition of this book, published in March 2015, laid ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

    by Saifedean Ammous ...
    A comprehensive and authoritative exploration of Bitcoin and its place in monetary historyWhen a pseudonymous programmer introduced "a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party" to a small online mailing list in 2008, very few people paid attention. Ten years later, and against all odds, this upstart autonomous decentralized software offers an unstoppable ... Read more

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  • Broken Money

    Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better

    by Lyn Alden ...
    A Comprehensive Overview of the Past, Present, and Future of MoneyBroken Money explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward globally and permanently. The book's goal is for the reader to walk away with a deep understanding of money and monetary history, both in terms of theoretical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Curse of Cash

    How Large-Denomination Bills Aid Crime and Tax Evasion and Constrain Monetary Policy

    by Kenneth S. Rogoff ...
    “A brilliant and lucid new book” (John Lanchester, New York Times Magazine) about why paper money and digital currencies lie at the heart of many of the world’s most difficult problems—and their solutionsIn The Curse of Cash, acclaimed economist and bestselling author Kenneth Rogoff explores the past, present, and future of currency, showing why, contrary to conventional economic wisdom, the ... Read more

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  • Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin

    From Money that We Understand to Money that Understands Us

    by David Birch ...
    Technology is changing money: it has been transformed from physical objects to intangible information. With the arrival of smart cards, mobile phones and Bitcoin it has become easier than ever to create new forms of money. Crucially, money is also inextricably connected with our identities. Your card or phone is a security device that can identify you – and link information about you to your money ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Bitcoin Enlightenment

    Ending The Fiat Dark Age

    by Ricardo B. Salinas, Pascal Hügli, Daniel Jungen, Saifedean Ammous ...
    In The Bitcoin Enlightenment, billionaire entrepreneur Ricardo B Salinas, who bought his first Bitcoin at $200, shares the hard-won monetary wisdom passed down through four generations of his family. Having survived Mexico's devastating hyperinflation of the 1980s, Salinas understands firsthand how fiat money destroys wealth, corrupts society, and enslaves entire populations.This groundbreaking ... Read more

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  • Everything You need to Know About Central Bank Digital Currency

    by Nickoy Mills ...
    The old world is ending and the new world order is taking shape. You may have heard that central banks around the world are slowly introducing their own digital currencies called CBDCs or Central Bank Digital Currencies.For the most part, they will tell you that these currencies are the same as paper money, except they exist only in a digital form. However, there is far more that you need to know ... Read more

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  • Money: What You Don't Know

    by Denis La Plume ...
    Our life depends on money. However, most people have no idea how money works, apart from using cash or their credit cards. The rest of the system is a big mystery. This book summarizes in simple words how money works. With the help of more than 30 illustrations and 250 references, it presents: – a short history of money, – the problems of the current financial system and its fragile architecture ... Read more

    $2.37 USD

  • Payment Systems, Monetary Policy and the Role of the Central Bank

    by Omotunde Mr. Johnson, Jean-Marc Mr. Destresse, Nicholas Mr. Roberts, Mark Mr. Swinburne, Tonny Mr. Lybek, Richard Mr. Abrams ...
    A payment system encompasses a set of instruments and means generally acceptable in making payments; the institutional and organizational framework governing such payments, including prudential regulation; and the operating procedures and communications network used to initiate and transmit payment information from payer to payee and to settle payments. This book, by Omotunde E.G. Johnson, with ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Infrastructure Finance Challenge

    by Ingo Walter (ed.) ...
    Series Book 3 - Open Reports Series
    Infrastructure and its effects on economic growth, social welfare, and sustainability receive a great deal of attention today. There is widespread agreement that infrastructure is a key dimension of global development and that its impact reaches deep into the broader economy with important and multifaceted implications for social progress.At the same time, infrastructure finance is among the most ... Read more

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