Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “tor jacobson”
Skip side bar filters

  • Sveriges Riksbank and the History of Central Banking

    Edited by Rodney Edvinsson, Tor Jacobson, Daniel Waldenström ...
    Series series Studies in Macroeconomic History
    Written in celebration of its 350th anniversary in 2018, this book details the history of the central bank of Sweden, Sveriges Riksbank, as presented by Klas Fregert. It relates the bank's history to the development of other major central banks around the world. Chapters are written by some of the more prominent scholars in the field of monetary economics and economic history. These chapters ... Read more

    $108.29 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

    The History of a Dangerous Idea

    by Mark Blyth ...
    Conservatives today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Fragile by Design

    The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit

    by Charles W. Calomiris, Stephen Haber ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Why stable banking systems are so rareWhy are banking systems unstable in so many countries—but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households.Analyzing the political and banking ... Read more

    $21.59 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods

    by Barry Eichengreen ...
    Series series Cairoli Lectures
    Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable.In Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods, Barry Eichengreen takes issue with the argument that today's international financial system is largely analogous to the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • How Global Currencies Work

    Past, Present, and Future

    by Barry Eichengreen, Arnaud Mehl, Livia Chitu ...
    A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuanAt first glance, the modern history of the global economic system seems to support the long-held view that the leading world power’s currency—the British pound, the U.S. dollar, and perhaps someday the Chinese yuan—invariably dominates international trade and finance. In How Global Currencies Work, three ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • In Defense of Public Debt

    by Barry Eichengreen, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteves, Kris James Mitchener ...
    A dive into the origins, management, and uses and misuses of sovereign debt through the ages. Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as governments responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis. Their dramatic rise has prompted apocalyptic warnings about the dangers of heavy debts—about the drag they will place on economic growth and the burden they ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Euro Crisis and Its Aftermath

    by Jean Pisani-Ferry ...
    The euro's life, while only slightly more than a decade long, has been riddled by a series of challenges and crises. The eruption of the Greek crisis in 2010 took European policymakers by surprise and forced them to design responses to a quickly deteriorating situation. Even though Europe has final begun to stabilize, the disparity between the prosperous Northern countries, especially Germany, and ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Euro and the Battle of Ideas

    by Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James, Jean-Pierre Landau ...
    How philosophical differences between Eurozone nations led to the Euro crisis—and where to go from hereWhy is Europe's great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble? A string of economic difficulties in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and other Eurozone nations has left observers wondering whether the currency union can survive. In this book, Markus Brunnermeier, Harold James, and Jean-Pierre ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Golden Fetters

    The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939

    by Barry Eichengreen ...
    Series series NBER Series on Long-term Factors in Economic Development
    This book offers a reassessment of the international monetary problems that led to the global economic crisis of the 1930s. It explores the connections between the gold standard--the framework regulating international monetary affairs until 1931--and the Great Depression that broke out in 1929. Eichengreen shows how economic policies, in conjunction with the imbalances created by World War I, gave ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Western Europe in Transition: Impact of Opening Up Eastern Europe

    by International Monetary Fund ...

    Free

  • Historical Dictionary of the International Monetary Fund

    by Sarah Tenney, Norman K. Humphreys ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of International Organizations
    In its more than 65 years of existence, the International Monetary Fund has evolved from a small, obscure international agency, with new and uncertain responsibilities, into a powerful institution that today has assumed center stage in the international monetary system. It is a remarkable story of how an institution has developed and adapted itself to an evolving world and a changing membership in ... Read more

    $141.99 USD