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Monetary Policy and Credit Control (Routledge Revivals)
The UK Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book, first published in 1978, provides an analysis of British monetary policy and considers what techniques of monetary control were most appropriate to the context of the U.K. during the 1970s and 1980s. David Gowland answers crucial questions surrounding economic management in the period between...
by Cheryl R. Lehman, Cheryl R. Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Giving voice to the marginalized, broadly defined, is the aim of this volume in its examination of social life increasingly marked by global inequality and the extension of market rationalities to all arenas. Revealing the outcome to populations, stakeholders, and the environment when policies resting...
Too Little, Too Late
The Quest to Resolve Sovereign Debt Crises
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The current approach to resolving sovereign debt crises does not work: sovereign debt restructurings come too late and address too little. Though unresolved debt crises impose enormous costs on societies, many recent restructurings have not been deep enough to provide the conditions for economic recovery...
Towards a General Theory of Deep Downturns
Presidential Address from the 17th World Congress of the International Economic Association in 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Joseph Stiglitz examines the theory behind the economic downturns that have plagued our world in recent times. This fascinating three-part lecture acknowledges the failure of economic models to successfully predict the 2008 crisis and explores alternative models which, if adopted, could potentially restore a stable and prosperous economy.
Price Regulation and Risk
The Impact of Regulation System Shifts on Risk Components
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Natural monopolies are not subject to the market-based principle of competition. Consequently, it is necessary to control companies in such monopoly positions with regard to their pricing. In the future, it will become more and more important to consider a possible change in the regulation regime...
by Constance M. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2004
A handy, clear, easy-to-use reference guide to the most important charts in technical analysis; charts only, virtually no text to bog down the user in getting what he wants when he wants it
The book will feature one chart per page that will be clearly labelled as to the pattern being illustrated.
The...
by Michael Sheimo
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2004
Unwritten rules of Wall Street--what works, what doesn't, and how investors can tell the difference. Investing is governed by unofficial rules, passed to investors through brokers, the financial press, and even fellow investors
For more than a decade, in two previous editions, Stock Market...
Debt, Democracy and the Welfare State
Are Modern Democracies Living on Borrowed Time and Money?
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Why is it that government debt in the developed world has risen to world war proportions in a time of peace? This can largely be attributed to governments maintaining welfare expenditures beyond what tax revenues allow. But will these governments refrain from doing what is necessary for economic growth for fear of losing their electorate?
by Filip Ilkowski
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This book analyzes the controversy surrounding imperialism associated with capitalist development. The last dozen years passed under the shadow of two momentous events: the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan conducted in the framework of the broader «war on terror», and the economic crisis. They occurred...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Any Chainnan of the British Post Office dwells in the shadow of Rowland Hill, and, if he were an honest man, he probably from time to time, while singing the praises of Rowland Hill, as is his due, thinks a silent thought of sympathy for his predecessor Colonel Maberly, the head of the Post Office,...
by Brunner Greg; Rocha Roberto; Hinz Richard
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Risk-Based Supervision of Pension Funds provides a review of the design and experience of risk-based pension fund supervision in countries that have been leaders in the development of these methods. The utilization of risk-based methods originates primarily in the supervision of banks. In recent years...
by William G. Arnold CCFM-A, CCA
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Avoid Violations of the Antideficiency Act!
Antideficiency Act (ADA) violations within both the financial and audit communities are now at an all-time high. Violations often result from a lack of knowledge about what is and what is not permissible under the law. The Antideficiency Act Answer...
The Federal Reserve
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Federal Reserve System--the central bank of the United States, better known as The Fed--has never been more controversial. Criticism has reached such levels that Congressman Ron Paul, contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, published End the Fed, with blurbs from musician...
Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century
Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world.