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  • Deterring Abuse of the Financial System: Elements of an Emerging International Integrity Standard

    by John Mr. Abbott, R. Mr. Johnston ...
    Series Book 05 - IMF Policy Discussion Papers
    Assessing financial systems' stability has required the IMF to dig deeper into financial sector issues and to include financial integrity elements in its assessments. Integrity elements are increasingly being addressed by international standards. More progress is needed, however, to prepare a comprehensive framework to prevent the abuse of the financial systems by both outsiders and insiders. ... Read more

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    A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt

    by Kwasi Kwarteng ...
    The world was wild for gold. After discovering the Americas, and under pressure to defend their vast dominion, the Habsburgs of Spain promoted gold and silver exploration in the New World with ruthless urgency. But, the great influx of wealth brought home by plundering conquistadors couldn't compensate for the Spanish government's extraordinary military spending, which would eventually bankrupt ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Perfectly Legal

    The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else

    by David Cay Johnston ...
    Now updated with a new prologue!Since the mid-1970s, there has been a dramatic shift in America's socioeconomic system, one that has gone virtually unnoticed by the general public. Tax policies and their enforcement have become a disaster, and thanks to discreet lobbying by a segment of the top 1 percent, Washington is reluctant or unable to fix them. The corporate income tax, the estate tax, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Occupy Money

    Creating an Economy Where Everybody Wins

    by Margrit Kennedy ...
    A visionary case for a new monetary system that is interest-free, just and stableAs a medium of exchange, money is one of the most ingenious inventions of mankind, as it facilitates the trade of goods and services and allows for specialization and the division of labor. However, compound interest and inflation have caused our monetary system to balloon to the point where bailing out banks, large ... Read more

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  • Global Discontents

    Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy

    by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian ...
    Series series The American Empire Project
    In this compelling set of interviews, the intellectual discusses contemporary threats to democracy, from economic inequality to the Trump presidency.In wide-ranging discussions with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider "the world we are leaving to our grandchildren": one imperiled by climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. If the current ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Euro Experiment

    by Paul Wallace ...
    How and why did the euro crisis happen? What are the implications for the economic and political future of Europe? The euro is an extraordinary political and economic experiment, the results of which are still highly uncertain. This book, written by a leading commentator on the economics of the European Union, provides a clear and analytical guide to the euro experiment and the subsequent crisis. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Dealing with High Debt in an Era of Low Growth

    by S. M. Ali Abbas, Bernardin Mr. Akitoby, Jochen R. Mr. Andritzky, Helge Mr. Berger, Takuji Mr. Komatsuzaki, Justin Tyson ...
    Series Book 13 - IMF Staff Discussion Notes
    task has become particularly challenging in European advanced economies where expectations of low growth and limits to monetary policy support are shifting the burden of adjustment onto fiscal consolidation. The SDN will investigate the main drivers behind successful past debt reversals, focusing on macroeconomic and financial market conditions, the speed and form of fiscal adjustment, and the ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • Operation Money

    A Financial Guide for Military Service Members and Families

    by Jean Chatzky ...
    "From investing in education and affording a home to choosing the right credit products and adequately saving for retirement, Operation Money offers military-specific advice to achieving financial stability." --Michael E. O'Neill, Chairman, Citigroup Inc., First Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps, 1969-1971When it comes to money, military service members and their families face financial challenges ... Read more

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  • Tomorrow

    by Cyril Dion ...
    Translated by Lisa Davidson ...
    What if highlighting solutions and telling positive stories was the best way to solve the ecological, economic, and social problems our countries are grappling with? In 2012, Cyril Dion learned about a study carried out by twenty-two scientists from around the world that forecasts the extinction of multiple forms of life, and possibly a large part of humanity, by the year 2100. This news barely ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Big Data

    Potential, Challenges and Statistical Implications

    by Cornelia Hammer, Diane C Kostroch, Gabriel Quiros ...
    Series series Staff Discussion Notes
    Big data are part of a paradigm shift that is significantly transforming statistical agencies, processes, and data analysis. While administrative and satellite data are already well established, the statistical community is now experimenting with structured and unstructured human-sourced, process-mediated, and machine-generated big data. The proposed SDN sets out a typology of big data for ... Read more

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  • Fiscal Space

    by Jun Mr. Kim, Atish Mr. Ghosh, Mahvash Saeed Qureshi, Jonathan Mr. Ostry ...
    Series Book 2010 - IMF Staff Position Notes
    In this note, the authors reexamine the issue of debt sustainability in a large group of advanced economies. Their hypothesis is that, when debt is in a moderate range, its dynamics are sustainable in the sense that increases in debt elicit sufficient increases in primary fiscal balances to stabilize the debt-to-GDP ratio. At high debt levels, however, the dynamics may turn unstable, and the debt ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • The Single Global Currency - Common Cents for the World (2014 Edition)

    by Morrison Bonpasse ...
    This 2014 Edition of THE SINGLE GLOBAL CURRENCY - COMMON CENTS FOR THE WORLD is the fifth book of this name, and it updates the text of the original 2006 edition. The 2007, 2008 and 2009 editions included the original edition together with an annual update appendix. The earlier editions are available on Amazon.com. Future editions are planned in five year increments for 2019 and 2024, the latter ... Read more

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