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.
Monetary and Banking History: Essays in Honour of Forrest Capie
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey 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 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, ...
The New International Monetary System: Essays in Honor of Alexander Swoboda
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles Wyplosz
November 08, 2013
The New International Monetary System brings together twelve original contributions by leading scholars and practitioners to a conference convened in May 2008 on the occasion of the retirement of Alexander Swoboda. The contributions are arranged in three main parts. Part I deals with the ...
Inflation Theory in Economics: Welfare, Velocity, Growth and Business Cycles
1st Edition
By Max Gillman
September 03, 2013
These essays bring together a progression in monetary theory. The major theme that runs through all of the chapters is that in order to do monetary economics well in general equilibrium, it helps to have a good money demand underlying the theory. A proper underlying money demand sets up arguably ...
Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in South and East Asia
1st Edition
By Luigi Bernardi, Angela Fraschini, Parthasarathi Shome
August 07, 2013
This book examines the present status, recent tax reforms and planned tax policies in some South and East Asia countries since the 1990s. The evidence is presented in a user friendly manner, but at the same time uses technically sophisticated methods. The main countries studied are China, India, ...
Towards a Socioanalysis of Money, Finance and Capitalism: Beneath the Surface of the Financial Industry
1st Edition
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By Susan Long, Burkard Sievers
June 18, 2013
The current global financial crisis has raised awareness of the impact the world of finance has on the economy and the future of democracy. Following the crisis, this book aims at a deep understanding of the human psycho-social dynamics beneath the surface of the financial industry, its markets and...
The Means to Prosperity: Fiscal Policy Reconsidered
1st Edition
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By Per Gunnar Berglund, Matias Vernengo
May 10, 2013
While recent developments in monetary theory have been fast to spread to policy analysis and practice and the media, the same is not true of fiscal policy, and a void has emerged. Issues such as timing, cyclical adjustments, long-term sustainability, and social implications are often seen as ...
Institutional Change in the Payments System and Monetary Policy
1st Edition
By Stefan W. Schmitz, Geoffrey Wood
November 14, 2012
"Central bankers worldwide welcome the recent increase of research on payment systems. This volume, providing an expert overview on this timely subject, should be required reading for us all". - Erkki Liikanen, Governor of the Bank of Finland Monetary policy has been at the centre of economic ...
Architects of the International Financial System
1st Edition
By Anthony Endres
September 25, 2012
Who were the great thinkers on international finance in the mid-twentieth century? What did they propose should be done to create a stable international financial order for promoting world trade and economic growth? This important book studies the ideas of some of the most innovative economists in...
Central Banking in Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Barry Harrison, Nigel Healey
September 10, 2012
This book, written by a multinational team of experts, explores the changing face of central banking in Eastern Europe in the light of modern macroeconomic thinking, providing important and novel insights into the design of monetary policy institutions.With its authoritative content, this book will...
Fixing Financial Crises in the 21st Century
1st Edition
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By Andrew Haldane
September 10, 2012
Financial crises have dogged the international monetary system over recent years. They have impoverished millions of people around the world, especially within developing countries. And they have called into question the very process of globalisation. Yet there remains no intellectual consensus on ...