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  • How a Ledger Became a Central Bank

    A Monetary History of the Bank of Amsterdam

    by Stephen Quinn, William Roberds ...
    Series series Studies in Macroeconomic History
    Before the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, the Bank of Amsterdam ('Bank') was a dominant central bank with a global impact on money and credit. How a Ledger Became a Central Bank draws on extensive archival data and rich secondary literature, to offer a new and detailed portrait of this historically significant institution. It describes how the Bank struggled to manage its money before ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Origins, History, and Future of the Federal Reserve

    A Return to Jekyll Island

    Edited by Michael D. Bordo, William Roberds ...
    Series series Studies in Macroeconomic History
    This book contains essays presented at a conference held in November 2010 to mark the centenary of the famous 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of leading American financiers and the US Treasury. The 1910 meeting resulted in the Aldrich Plan, a precursor to the Federal Reserve Act that was enacted by Congress in 1913. The 2010 conference, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Rutgers ... Read more

    $67.29 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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  • Essays on the Great Depression

    by Ben S. Bernanke ...
    From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic economic effectsAs chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve during the Global Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke helped avert a greater financial disaster than the Great Depression. And he did so by drawing ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The New Lombard Street

    How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort

    by Perry Mehrling ...
    Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street, published in 1873 in the wake of a devastating London bank collapse, explained in clear and straightforward terms why central banks must serve as the lender of last resort to ensure liquidity in a faltering credit system. Bagehot's book set down the principles that helped define the role of modern central banks, particularly in times of crisis--but the recent ... Read more

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  • The History of Money

    A Story of Humanity

    by David McWilliams ...
    "Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s The History of Money is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now."—The New York TimesIn this fresh, eye-opening global history, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money—from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley.The story of humanity is inextricable from that of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • THE CRISIS OF CAPITALIST DEMOCRACY

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    Judge Posner continues to react to the current economic crisis and reflect upon the impact on our views and reliance on capitalism. Posner helps non-technical readers understand business-cycle and financial economics, and financial and governmental institutions, practices, and transactions, while maintaining a neutrality impossible for persons professionally committed to one theory or another. ... Read more

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  • The History of Money

    by Jack Weatherford ...
    “If you’re interested in the revolutionary transformation of the meaning and use of money, this is the book to read!”—Charles R. SchwabCultural anthropologist Jack Weatherford traces our relationship with money, from primitive man’s cowrie shells to the electronic cash card, from the markets of Timbuktu to the New York Stock Exchange. The History of Money explores how money and the myriad forms of ... Read more

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  • Business Cycles and Equilibrium

    by Fischer Black ...
    An updated look at what Fischer Black's ideas on business cycles and equilibrium mean todayThroughout his career, Fischer Black described a view of business fluctuations based on the idea that a well-developed economy will be continually in equilibrium. In the essays that constitute this book, which is one of only two books Black ever wrote, he explores this idea thoroughly and reaches some ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Macroeconomics in Emerging Markets

    by Peter J. Montiel ...
    The macroeconomic experience of emerging and developing economies has tended to be quite different from that of industrial countries. Compared to industrial countries, emerging and developing economies have tended to be much more unstable, with more severe boom/bust cycles, episodes of high inflation and a variety of financial crises. This textbook describes how the standard macroeconomic models ... Read more

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  • The Price of Time

    The Real Story of Interest

    by Edward Chancellor ...
    Winner of the 2023 Hayek Book PrizeLonglisted for the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year AwardA comprehensive and profoundly relevant history of interest from one of the world’s leading financial writers, The Price of Time explains our current global financial position and how we got hereIn the beginning was the loan, and the loan carried interest. For at least five millennia people ... Read more

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