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  • Monetary Policy and Crises

    A Study of Swedish Experience

    by Brinley Thomas ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Monetary Economics
    This book, first published in 1936, is both an instructive chapter in economic history and a stimulating period in the history of economic thought. The author examines the years of economic recovery in Sweden and the measures that the country adopted to cope with the crisis due to the War. This title will be of interest to students of monetary e ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic Economy

    Selected Essays

    by Thomas Brinley ...
    In recent years it has become commonplace to downplay notions of an industrial revolution and argue instead that Britain's transformation was gradual and incremental. In The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic Economy Brinley Thomas contests this view, arguing that change in the energy base and hence in technology has enabled Britain to overcome ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Migration and Urban Development

    by Brinley Thomas ...
    This book provides a fascinating insight into the development of the nineteenth century Atlantic economy and the nature of contemporary migration. In particular the author argues that the assumption that the United States economy was the unmoved mover in the fluctuations of the international economy between 1860 and 1913 is incorrect. He presents evidence on regional housebuilding cycles in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The End of Alchemy

    Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy

    by Mervyn King ...
    “If [The End of Alchemy] gets the attention it deserves, it might just save the world.” —Michael Lewis, Bloomberg ViewSomething is wrong with our banking system. We all sense that, but Mervyn King knows it firsthand; his ten years at the helm of the Bank of England, including at the height of the financial crisis, revealed profound truths about the mechanisms of our capitalist society. In The End ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • When the Money Runs Out

    The End of Western Affluence

    by Stephen D. King ...
    The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades, a prosperous period so extended that continuous economic growth has come to seem normal. But such an era of continuously rising living standards is a historical anomaly, economist Stephen D. King warns, and the current stagnation of Western economies threatens to reach crisis proportions in the not ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Keynes

    The Return of the Master

    by Robert Skidelsky ...
    In the debris of the financial crash of 2008, the principles of John Maynard Keynes -- that economic storms are a normal part of the market system, that governments need to step in and use fiscal ammunition to prevent these storms from becoming depressions, and that societies that value the pursuit of money should reprioritize -- are more pertinent and applicable than ever. In Keynes: The Return ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Shifts and the Shocks

    What We've Learned--and Have Still to Learn--from the Financial Crisis

    by Martin Wolf ...
    From the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times—a brilliant tour d’horizon of the new global economyThere have been many books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the financial and economic crisis that began in 2007. The Shifts and the Shocks is not another detailed history of the crisis but is the most persuasive and complete account yet published of what the crisis ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Production of Money

    How to Break the Power of Bankers

    by Ann Pettifor ...
    What is money, where does it come from, and who controls it?In this accessible, brilliantly argued book, leading political economist Ann Pettifor explains in straightforward terms history’s most misunderstood invention: the money system. Pettifor argues that democracies can, and indeed must, reclaim control over money production and restrain the out-of-control finance sector so that it serves the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • We Need to Talk About Inflation

    14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years

    by Stephen D. King ...
    **A FINANCIAL TIMES 'BOOK TO READ IN 2023'“Everything you wanted to know about inflation but were afraid to ask.”—Mervyn King"King's lessons command our attention.”—Lawrence H. Summers"Maybe you don’t think inflation is back for good. That is your right. But you’d be advised to read this book first.”—Stephanie Flanders**From investors and monetary authorities to governments and policy makers, ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • Capitalism 4.0

    The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis

    by Anatole Kaletsky ...
    In this controversial book, Anatole Kaletsky puts the upheavals of 2007-2009 in historical and ideological perspective. He shows how the forces that precipitated the financial meltdown are now creating a new and stronger version of the global capitalist system-- one that will continue to be led and shaped by the U.S. if its businesses and politicians play their cards well. This is Capitalism 4.0, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Free Lunch

    Easily Digestible Economics

    by David Smith ...
    'Free of jargon, obfuscation and interminable subordinate clauses, his prose is just the job' The TimesA fully updated and revised edition of the classic guide.The economy has never been so relevant to so many people as it is now. 'There's no such thing as a free lunch' is the one phrase everyone has heard from economics. But why not? What does economics tell us about the price of lunch - and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Bretton Woods: History of a monetary system

    by Marco Casella ...
    This book provides a historical background of the monetary system of Bretton Woods, whose conference was held in 1944 in order to establish the rules of the commercial and financial relationships between the main industrialized countries of the world. ... Read more

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