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  • Totalitarian Money?

    The Case against Central Bank Digital Currencies

    by Kevin Dowd ...
    Kevin Dowd's Totalitarian Money? provides a comprehensive critique of proposals to establish CBDCs (central bank digital currencies) around the world. He argues that they are economically inefficient, as they provide no benefits that cannot be obtained by other means. He explains why CBDCs are dangerous to financial stability and personal freedom as they enable digital currency to be weaponised ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

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  • The Experience of Free Banking

    Edited by Kevin Dowd ...
    Many people mistakenly – but perhaps understandably – believe that ‘free banking’ means paying no charges for their bank accounts. But ‘free banking’ is really an historic term to describe a system in which banks issue their own notes – without the presence of a central bank (such as the Bank of England in the UK). For some, this may seem an alien concept. But free banking has already been ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • New Private Monies

    A Bit-Part Player?

    by Kevin Dowd ...
    Series series Hobart Papers
    Kevin Dowd argues that states must allow a level playing field as far as private money is concerned. For too long the government has stifled competition between state-backed and private currencies. Instead, central banks should welcome competition as it forces them to offer consumers greater choice and improved quality. A weakened ability to store value, growing restrictions on finance, oppressive ... Read more

    $6.52 USD

  • Money and the Market

    Essays on Free Banking

    by Kevin Dowd ...
    Series series Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy
    Kevin Dowd asserts that state intervention into financial and monetary systems has failed, and that we would be better off if financial markets were left to regulate themselves. This collection will appeal to students, researchers and policy makers in the monetary and financial area. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Financial Stability Without Central Banks

    by George Selgin, Kevin Dowd, Mathieu Bédard ...
    George Selgin is one of the world's foremost monetary historians. In this book, based on the 2016 Hayek Memorial Lecture, he shows how a system of private banks without a central bank can bring about financial stability through self-regulation. If one bank stretches credit too far, it will be reined in by the others before the system as a whole gets out of control. The banks have a strong ... Read more

    $6.52 USD

  • Laissez Faire Banking

    by Kevin Dowd ...
    Series series Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy
    The idea of free (or laissez-faire) banking has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance in recent years. It is a novel idea that challenges much of what many banking scholars still take for granted - that banking is inherently unstable, that the banking system needs a lender of last resort or deposit insurance to defend it in a crisis, and that the Govern ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Alchemists of Loss

    How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System

    by Kevin Dowd, Martin Hutchinson ...
    An engaging look at how modern finance almost destroyed our global economyOver the last thirty years, capital markets have been restructured through the tenets of modern finance. This has been enormously profitable for the financial services sector. However, these innovations, coupled with unsound risk and regulatory practices have proved disastrous for the global economy.In a clear and accessible ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Goddard, John O. S. Wilson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Banks are of central importance for economic growth, the allocation of capital, competitiveness, and financial stability. Propelled by technological advances in financial analysis and financial deregulation, the banking industry's investment played a key role in enhancing national economic growth in the early 21st century. The global financial crisis in 2007 revealed the banking world's feet of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Road to Recovery

    How and Why Economic Policy Must Change

    by Andrew Smithers ...
    Renowned economist Andrew Smithers offers prescriptive advice and economic theory on avoiding the next financial crisisIn The Road to Recovery, Andrew Smithers—one of a handful of respected economists to have accurately predicted the most recent global financial crisis—argues that the neoclassical consensus governing global economic decision-making must be revised in order to avoid the next ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • 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

  • Financial Stability in the Aftermath of the 'Great Recession'

    by P. Arestis, E. Karakitsos ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The financial crisis and the ensued 'great recession' are primarily caused by the excessive liquidity that was created in the last thirty years or so of inequality that benefited greatly the financial sector, deregulation and financial liberalisation as well as financial innovation. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Ascent of Money

    A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    **The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency"[An] excellent, just in time guide to the history of finance and financial crisis." —The Washington Post"Fascinating." —Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek**In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed ... Read more

    $13.99 USD