Money Monetary Policy category: 1222 books

With growth weakening in many parts of the world and downside risks on the rise, fiscal consolidation remains challenging. However, considerable progress has been made in strengthening fiscal accounts following their sharp deterioration in 2008-09. This issue of the Fiscal Monitor takes stock of this...

With increasing fiscal challenges in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, multilateral surveillance of fiscal developments, a key part of the IMF's surveillance responsibilities, has gained further importance. In response, the Fiscal Monitor was launched in 2009 to survey and analyze the latest...

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics. What would be necessary to bring about a wide-scale monetary reform? What would an entire money and banking system look like which would change,...

This book, first published in 1934, provides a discussion of the important facts and underlying principles of the financial problems that the American people were facing after the Great Depression. The title includes discussions of gold and paper standards, Germany’s inflation, the silver question...

This title presents a collection of documents relating to the monetary history of gold from the 17th century up to the present, covering specifically the rise of the gold standard, its heyday, and the period following.

Jon Freeman interviewed by Dr Nicholas Beecroft and Melanie Mortiboys on the Future of Capitalism. Jon is a Director of the Centre for Human Emergence in the UK. He describes the shift in values we need to make to relate differently to money to put it back in its place as our servant, not the other...

On 8 November 2016, India took the dramatic and unprecedented step of demonetising its high denomination Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes in an effort to ‘fight black money, eliminate counterfeit notes and stop terror funding’. The decision has prompted fierce and widespread debate. While proponents...

When Washington Shut Down Wall Street unfolds like a mystery story. It traces Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo's triumph over a monetary crisis at the outbreak of World War I that threatened the United States with financial disaster. The biggest gold outflow in a generation imperiled America's...

Reprinting the second edition (which included a new introduction explaining developments which had emerged since first publication) this book discusses explorations in the fundamental theory of a monetary economy, a theoretical critique of the ‘Phillips Curve’ approach to the theory of inflation...

This volume consists of selected previously published key essays which have proved most useful for teaching advanced monetary economics. A short introduction was added which places the selection of essays and the issues they cover in the contemporaneous context of simultaneous high inflation and high...

Do you understand how money works? If you are not quite sure, you've come to the right place. I am about to show you 11 ways of looking at money, in order to understand its nature. Why is this important? See, most people think money is an asset or money is what you want...