Playing Monopoly with the Devil: Dollarization and Domestic Currencies in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780300113303 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why should a developing country surrender its power to create money by adopting an international currency as its own? This comprehensive book explores the currency problems that developing countries face and offers sound, practical advice for policy makers on how to deal with them. Manuel Hinds, who has extensive experience in real-world economic policy making, challenges the myths that surround domestic currencies and shows the clear rationality for dollarization or the use of a standard international currency.
The book opens with an entertaining story of the Devil, who, through a series... Why should a developing country surrender its power to create money by adopting an international currency as its own? This comprehensive book explores...
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247,12 zł |
Charting Twentieth-Century Monetary Policy: Herbert Hoover and Benjamin Strong, 1917-1927
ISBN: 9780313309786 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Herbert Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, and Benjamin Strong, as Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, played a critical role in the formulation of American monetary policy during the 1920s. Yet little attention has been given to the relationship between them--at first cooperative, then increasingly one of conflict and factionalism--or to the impact of that relationship on policy formulation. This book sheds new light on their roles in policy making and relates those roles to larger conflicts over where policy should be made, how the Federal Reserve System should be... Herbert Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, and Benjamin Strong, as Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, played a critical role in the f... |
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384,41 zł |
Money
ISBN: 9780313338526 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Money makes the world go around. From the earliest bartering systems to today's sophisticated electronic transfers of billions of dollars in a split second, systems of exchange have conferred value upon goods and services and created the economic glue that binds individuals, businesses, communities, and nations together. In this volume, the authors present a colorful history of money in its economic, political, socio-cultural, and even pscyhological context. The first section focuses on banks and financial institutions. The second part covers the role of currency in national sovereignty;... Money makes the world go around. From the earliest bartering systems to today's sophisticated electronic transfers of billions of dollars in a spli... |
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285,56 zł |
Monetary Theory and Policy Experience
ISBN: 9780333960899 / Angielski / Twarda / 363 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Monetary Theory and Policy Experience offers a broad context for the question of why governments prefer to limit themselves to a specific inflation target. Academic specialists and senior officials of the European Central Bank, the OECK and national central banks look beyond inflation targeting as the goal of monetary policy. Nobel Laureate Robert Mundell, surveys the history and prospects of the sovereignty of the state over money, while Michael Bordo and Lars Jonung use data of fourteen industrialized countries over the past century to show relationships between fiscal and monetary...
Monetary Theory and Policy Experience offers a broad context for the question of why governments prefer to limit themselves to a specific inflation ta...
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390,87 zł |
The Dollar
ISBN: 9780393001914 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a vigorous examination of the dollar as an institution reflecting in its tumultuous history the character and achievements of America. It brings the history of the dollar up to date with an analysis of the most recent developments in the position of the dollar in international affairs.
This book provides a vigorous examination of the dollar as an institution reflecting in its tumultuous history the character and achievements of Ameri...
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86,72 zł |
Money/Space: Geographies of Monetary Transformation
ISBN: 9780415038355 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together in one volume the most important writings of Andrew Leyshon and Nigel Thrift on money and finance, including the unpublished classic "Sexy-Greedy" this collection examines the economic, social and cultural manifestations that go to make up the multiple vision of money.
Money, it seems is the great God of our age. It is also an economy, a sociology, an anthropolgy and a geography. Linking money with the emergent patterns of global spatial order. Money/Space analyses the restructuring of financial markets in a range of spatial scales; global, national and local. Bringing together in one volume the most important writings of Andrew Leyshon and Nigel Thrift on money and finance, including the unpublished classic...
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250,36 zł |
Russian Currency and Finance: A Currency Board Approach to Reform
ISBN: 9780415096515 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the new Russian state struggles with the transition to a market economy, the need for radical monetary reform becomes increasingly urgent. The choice of reform is crucial, for it will largely determine Russia's future economic performance. In order to break free of the lingering effects of Soviet central planning, the new Russian state needs a stable, convertible currency.
Steve H. Hanke, Lars Jonung and Kurt Schuler propose that Russia establishes a currency board which would issue a Russian currency fully convertible with international currency, backed 100 per cent by international... As the new Russian state struggles with the transition to a market economy, the need for radical monetary reform becomes increasingly urgent. The choi...
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782,54 zł |
A History of Money: From Ad 800
ISBN: 9780415102797 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a detailed and surprising history of money from Charlemagne's reform in approximately AD800 to the end of the Silver Wars in 1896. It also summarizes twentieth century developments and places them in their historical context.
This book presents a detailed and surprising history of money from Charlemagne's reform in approximately AD800 to the end of the Silver Wars in 1896. ...
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Knut Wicksell: Critical Assessments
ISBN: 9780415108867 / Angielski / Twarda / 944 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Monetary Theory: National and International
ISBN: 9780415110556 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Monetary Theory provides an alternative to monetary economics based on the distinctive properties of money banking. The book:
*Analyses money *Shows that the distinction between money and income is rooted in the banking practice *Examines exchange rate instability and financial crisis *Puts forward an alternative proposal for European Monetary Union. Monetary Theory provides an alternative to monetary economics based on the distinctive properties of money banking. The book:
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286,88 zł |
Monetary Theory: 1601-1758
ISBN: 9780415125338 / Angielski / Twarda / 2200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This six-volume set contains the writings of the earliest pioneers of monetary theory. It contains some 28 texts, beginning with Gerard de Maynes' A Treatise of the Canker of England's Common Wealth (1601) and ending with Joseph Harris' An Essay on Money and Coins (1757/58). It contains some 28 texts, beginning with Gerard de Maynes' A Treatise of the Canker of England's Common Wealth (1601) and ending with Joseph Harris' An Essay on Money and Coins (1757/58). Many of the texts reproduced are both rare and difficult to read in their original form. Here each text has been carefully re-typeset...
This six-volume set contains the writings of the earliest pioneers of monetary theory. It contains some 28 texts, beginning with Gerard de Maynes' A T...
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6521,16 zł |
A History of Money : From AD 800
ISBN: 9780415137294 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everyone is familiar with money. Yet few realize that currently contentious issues and financial difficulties are not new. On the contrary, most are firmly rooted in the past and when examined help to put current economic problems in historical context. This text presents a history of money from Charlemagne's reform in approximately AD 800 to the end of the Silver Wars in 1896. It offers a summary of 20th-century events and an analysis of how the past relates to present problems. This book examines how virtually all modern difficulties associated with money have precedents in the past. It...
Everyone is familiar with money. Yet few realize that currently contentious issues and financial difficulties are not new. On the contrary, most are f...
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286,88 zł |
Inquiry Into Currency Prin Lse
ISBN: 9780415143950 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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965,13 zł |
Gold Standard in Theory & History
ISBN: 9780415150606 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the successful first edition of The Gold Standard in Theory and History was published in 1985, much new research has been completed. This updated version contains five new essays including:
* post 1990 literature on exchange rate target zones * a discussion of the light shed by the gold standard on the European Monetary Union debate * a new introduction by Eichengreen with Marc Flandreau This will be an invaluable resource for students of macroeconomics, international economics and economic history at all levels. Since the successful first edition of The Gold Standard in Theory and History was published in 1985, much new research has been completed. Th...
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965,13 zł |
Gold Standard in Theory & History
ISBN: 9780415150613 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the successful first edition of The Gold Standard in Theory and History was published in 1985, much new research has been completed. This updated version contains five new essays including:
* post 1990 literature on exchange rate target zones * a discussion of the light shed by the gold standard on the European Monetary Union debate * a new introduction by Eichengreen with Marc Flandreau This will be an invaluable resource for students of macroeconomics, international economics and economic history at all levels. Since the successful first edition of The Gold Standard in Theory and History was published in 1985, much new research has been completed. Th...
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323,40 zł |
Money in Islam: A Study in Islamic Political Economy
ISBN: 9780415163026 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume takes a unique and challenging look at how money has operated in Islamic society and at how Islamic theoretical frameworks have influenced perceptions of money.
The author draws upon historical, data and policy analysis to present a comparative study of monetary theories, including recent treatment of money by Islamic economists. Discussion also covers the nature of joint venture, stock markets, banks and financial intermediaries, price stability and international trade. This work sheds pioneering light in this area, and will be of interest to academics, graduates and... This volume takes a unique and challenging look at how money has operated in Islamic society and at how Islamic theoretical frameworks have influenced...
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599,95 zł |
Exchange Rate Policies in Emerging Asian Countries
ISBN: 9780415178525 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides an overview of exchange rate policies in the growth economies of East and Southeast Asia. The contributors provide theoretical material, compare national policies across the region, and study the national experiences in countries including Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. This study further explores the implications of Asian exchange rate policies for the world economy, providing regional, global and historical perspectives on Asian monetary relations.
This volume provides an overview of exchange rate policies in the growth economies of East and Southeast Asia. The contributors provide theoretical ma...
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678,21 zł |
Nation-States and Money : The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies
ISBN: 9780415189262 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. National currencies appear to be threatened from all sides. European Union member countries are due to abandon their national currencies in favour of a supranational currency by the year 2000. Elsewhere, the use of foreign currencies within national economic spaces is on the increase, as shown by the growth of eurocurrency activity, and currency substitution in many parts of the world. In the last decade, privately-issued sub-national local currencies have also proliferated in a number of countries, and predict the emergence of private electronic monies of the future. In the this book asks...
National currencies appear to be threatened from all sides. European Union member countries are due to abandon their national currencies in favour of ...
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756,45 zł |
What Is Money?
ISBN: 9780415206907 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provocatively rethinks the economics, politics and sociology of money and examines the classic question of what is money. Starting from the two dominant views of money, as neutral instrument and as social relation, What is Money? presents a thematic, interdisciplinary approach which points to a definitive statement on money.
Bringing together a variety of neclassical and heterodox perspectives, this work collects the latest thinking of some of the best-known economics scholars on the question of money. The contributors are Victoria Chick, Kevin Dowd, Gilles Dostaler,... This volume provocatively rethinks the economics, politics and sociology of money and examines the classic question of what is money. Starting from th...
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756,45 zł |
Monetary Policy Frameworks in a Global Context
ISBN: 9780415226189 / Angielski / Twarda / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The analysis of any monetary policy framework necessarily extends beyond the confinements of the central bank. A country's monetary framework can depend on many factors such as: its form of government; its legal system; the level of expertise in monetary policy matters that exists inside and outside the central bank; the country's financial institutions; as well as wider characteristics including the political system and level of literacy. This broad ranging collection focuses on the monetary policy frameworks used by central banks and governments in their attempt to achieve their various...
The analysis of any monetary policy framework necessarily extends beyond the confinements of the central bank. A country's monetary framework can depe...
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307,74 zł |