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.
Bank Deregulation & Monetary Order
1st Edition
By George Selgin
December 18, 2015
Can the 'invisible hand' handle money? George Selgin challenges the view that government regulation creates monetary order and stability, and instead shows it to be the main source of monetary crisis. The volume is divided into three sections: * Part I refutes conventional wisdom holding that any ...
Money and its Origins
1st Edition
By Shahzavar Karimzadi
August 19, 2015
The concept of the origin of money has been a topic of interest and discussion to almost all schools of economic thought. However, in spite of minor differences of interpretation, most views share an underlying core principal about the rise and origin of money, implicit in which is the central ...
Financial Geography: A Banker's View
1st Edition
By Risto Laulajainen
May 21, 2015
This truly internationally-focused book is a readable, comprehensive guide to the economic geography of the world's financial centres that is as enjoyable to read as it is informative. All students and academics involved with economic geography as well as professionals in the banking and finance ...
Global Finance in Emerging Market Economies
1st Edition
By Todd Knoop
May 21, 2015
Emerging market economies have accounted for three quarters of world economic growth and more than half of world output over the last decade. But the energy and ideas inherent in emerging economies cannot generate growth by themselves without resources to support them — and first among these ...
Money in Economic Theory
1st Edition
By Hasse Ekstedt
May 21, 2015
The financial crash of 2008 showed the fragility of the financial system. A key question which surfaced in the aftermath of the global crisis was why economists were unable to predict this crash. This new volume argues that this failure can be attributed, at least in part, to the poor and ...
Cultures of Expertise in Global Currency Markets
1st Edition
By Leon Wansleben
February 27, 2015
Notwithstanding financial crises, global foreign exchange markets have undergone a tremendous growth during the last two decades. Foreign exchange (FX) is often thought of as a site where economic actors exchange currencies for buying foreign goods or selling goods in foreign countries, but the FX ...
Monetary Policy Rule in Theory and Practice: Facing the Internal vs External Stability Dilemma
1st Edition
By Nicolas Barbaroux
February 27, 2015
This new volume sheds new light on current monetary issues, in particular the debate on monetary policy making, by blending theoretical economic analysis, history of economics, and historical case studies. A discretionary monetary policy refers to cases in which the central bank is free to change...
New Contributions to Monetary Analysis: The Foundations of an Alternative Economic Paradigm
1st Edition
Edited
By Faruk Ülgen, Ramon Tortajada, Matthieu Méaulle, Rémi Stellian
February 27, 2015
This book sheds light on some of the most recent developments in monetary analysis which offer a theoretical framework for a renewed monetary approach and related policy extensions. It points to recent research on what a consistent and broad-scope monetary theory could be based in ...
New Perspectives on Emotions in Finance: The Sociology of Confidence, Fear and Betrayal
1st Edition
Edited
By Jocelyn Pixley
February 27, 2015
The financial crisis that started in 2007 is a concern for the world. Some countries are in depression and governments are desperately trying to find solutions. In the absence of thorough debate on the emotions of money, bitter disputes, hatred and ‘moralizing’ can be misunderstood. New ...
Money and Payments in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Sergio Rossi
February 05, 2015
International in scope and written by a leading young Post-Keynesian economist, this book focuses on the working of money and payments in a multi-bank settlement system within which banks and non-bank financial institutions have been expanding their operations outside their countries of ...
The History of the Bundesbank: Lessons for the European Central Bank
1st Edition
Edited
By Jakob De Haan
December 01, 2014
After fifty years the Deutsche Bundesbank - the central bank that dominated European monetary affairs - has stepped down to entrust monetary policy to the European Central Bank (ECB). This is the first research work to thoroughly explore the lessons to be learned from the Bundesbank by the ECB, in ...
Policy Makers on Policy: The Mais Lectures
1st Edition
Edited
By Forrest Capie, Geoffrey E. Wood
November 10, 2014
In this volume, a wide range of leading policy makers and practitioners reflect on the aims and objectives of monetary policy and on what it can achieve, The contributors include: * Tony Blair * Sir Samuel Brittan * Gordon Brown * Kenneth Clarke * Eddie George * Geoffrey Howe * Nigel Lawson * ...