Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
About the Book Series
This series explores the roles of money and banking in the modern world. Banking is an increasingly important and international industry, and its interaction with money is a major concern for the world's economic policy-makers.
Money, Credit and Price Stability
1st Edition
By Paul Dalziel
April 28, 2014
Beginning with the development of credit-money theory in the twentieth century, Paul Dalziel derives a model that explains how interest rates are used by authorities to maintain price stability. His conclusions suggest ways in which the current policy framework can be improved to promote growth, ...
Monetary Macroeconomics: A New Approach
1st Edition
By Alvaro Cencini
April 02, 2014
This book provides the grounding for a new approach to monetary economics, based on the book-keeping nature of money. The main themes of macroeconomics are examined to show how we may improve our understanding through a thorough analysis of their monetary aspects. Money is the key element and its ...
Monetary Unions: Theory, History, Public Choice
1st Edition
Edited
By Forrest Capie, Geoffrey E. Wood
February 25, 2014
The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in which some members of the European Union have joined, has prompted much discussion of monetary union. Most of this discussion has focused on the immediate issues, such as prospects for the Euro and the possibility of expanding the Euro-zone. This book stands...
Money in Islam: A Study in Islamic Political Economy
1st Edition
By Masudul A. Choudhury
January 30, 2014
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 ...
Developing Alternative Frameworks for Explaining Tax Compliance
1st Edition
Edited
By James Alm, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Benno Torgler
November 08, 2013
Over the last several decades, there has been a growing interest in theoretical, empirical, and experimental work on all aspects of tax compliance and tax evasion. The essays in this volume summarize the existing state of knowledge of tax compliance and tax evasion, present new thinking about this ...
Doing Money: Elementary Monetary Theory from a Sociological Standpoint
1st Edition
By Heiner Ganßmann
November 08, 2013
This book puts in place the groundwork for an alternative theory of money in a sociological perspective, proceeding by way of a critique of existing theories....
Inflation Expectations
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter J N Sinclair
November 08, 2013
Inflation is regarded by the many as a menace that damages business and can only make life worse for households. Keeping it low depends critically on ensuring that firms and workers expect it to be low. So expectations of inflation are a key influence on national economic welfare. This collection ...
International Tax Coordination: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Virtues and Pitfalls
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Zagler
November 08, 2013
International taxation is a major research topic, and for a field of research at the intersection of so many disciplines there has been surprisingly little done across disciplinary boundaries. This book fills the gap by combining teams from business, economics, information science, law and ...
Monetary Policy Over Fifty Years: Experiences and Lessons
1st Edition
Edited
By Heinz Herrmann
November 08, 2013
This book is based on a conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Bundesbank. Since the 1950s, there have been fundamental changes in the monetary order and financial systems, in our understanding of the effects of monetary policy, the best goals for central banks and the ...
Monetary and Banking History: Essays in Honour of Forrest Capie
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey E. Wood, Terence Mills, Nicholas Crafts
November 08, 2013
Forrest Capie is an eminent economic historian who has published extensively on a wide range of topics, with an emphasis on banking and monetary history, particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also in other areas such as tariffs and the interwar economy. He is also a former ...
New Approaches to Monetary Theory: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Heiner Ganßmann
November 08, 2013
Everybody uses money every day, but we rarely stop to think about how money works. In this book, scholars from different disciplines seek to answer that question; from historians to economists, sociologists, a philosopher and a physicist. Money works as a social construction because we have mutual ...
The Capital Needs of Central Banks
1st Edition
Edited
By Sue Milton, Peter J N Sinclair
November 08, 2013
Central banks have evolved over many years, and sometimes centuries, as policy-making, not profit-making, institutions, and yet they are structured legally and financially like ‘for-profit’ companies of the twenty-first century. The question is what is an appropriate level of equity, or capital, ...