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  • Privacy

    Defending an Illusion

    Matters of privacy have profoundly changed since electronic storage of information has become the norm. Consequently, policy-makers and legislators are trying to keep up with privacy challenges in the workplace, in healthcare, in surveillance, and on social networking sites. With Privacy: Defending an Illusion, Martin Dowding fills a very important gap in policy analysis and the teaching of ... Read more

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  • Policy Agendas in Australia

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book contributes to and expands on the major international Comparative Policy Agendas Project. It sets the project in context, and provides a comprehensive assessment of the changing policy agenda in Australia over a forty-year period, using a unique systematic dataset of governor-general speeches, legislation and parliamentary questions, and then mapping these on to media coverage and what ... Read more

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  • Alchemists of Loss

    How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System

    An engaging look at how modern finance almost destroyed our global economyOver the last thirty years, capital markets have been restructured through the tenets of modern finance. This has been enormously profitable for the financial services sector. However, these innovations, coupled with unsound risk and regulatory practices have proved disastrous for the global economy.In a clear and accessible ... Read more

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Banks are of central importance for economic growth, the allocation of capital, competitiveness, and financial stability. Propelled by technological advances in financial analysis and financial deregulation, the banking industry's investment played a key role in enhancing national economic growth in the early 21st century. The global financial crisis in 2007 revealed the banking world's feet of ... Read more

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  • Understanding Government Finance

    The government budget is not like a household budget. This report introduces the financial operations used by a central government with a free-floating currency, and explains how they differ from that of a household or corporation. The focus is on what constraints such a government faces, and explains why such governments only face a limited risk of involuntary default.It introduces a simplified ... Read more

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  • SuperCycles: The New Economic Force Transforming Global Markets and Investment Strategy

    by Arun Motianey ...
    A brilliantly original assessment of what caused the global crash—and a practical plan for investing accordinglySupercycles, according to international economist and strategist, Arun Motianey, are the continuous, long waves of boom and bust that undulate through the global economic and financial systems. More often than not, they are the result of policymakers' well-intentioned but misguided ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Road to Recovery

    How and Why Economic Policy Must Change

    Renowned economist Andrew Smithers offers prescriptive advice and economic theory on avoiding the next financial crisisIn The Road to Recovery, Andrew Smithers—one of a handful of respected economists to have accurately predicted the most recent global financial crisis—argues that the neoclassical consensus governing global economic decision-making must be revised in order to avoid the next ... Read more

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  • Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics

    by Dirk H. Ehnts ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
    This book provides a new methodological approach to money and macroeconomics. Realizing that the abstract equilibrium models lacked descriptions of fundamental issues of a modern monetary economy, the focus of this book lies on the (stylized) balance sheets of the main actors. Money, after all, is born on the balance sheets of the central bank or commercial bank. While households and firms hold ... Read more

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  • Public Finance

    by Carl Shoup ...
    Broad in scope and carefully balanced in emphasis, this book is a major treatise on the theory and practice of public finance. It is unique in its presentation of a worldwide perspective and in its treatment of both the instruments of public finance and the goals, effects, and criteria of public finance measures. The book is divided into three parts. Book One defines the field, specifies the ... Read more

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  • The Money Minders

    The Parables, Trade-offs and Lags of Central Banking

    by Jagjit Chadha ...
    In the crises of the past fifteen years, central bankers have become big public players in a drama that affects all our lives, involving financial market crashes, public health threats and devastating economic downturns. Having played a lead role in the global financial crisis and the coronavirus crisis, they are now being asked to broaden their appeal. But the key aim has always been one of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Financial Stability in the Aftermath of the 'Great Recession'

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The financial crisis and the ensued 'great recession' are primarily caused by the excessive liquidity that was created in the last thirty years or so of inequality that benefited greatly the financial sector, deregulation and financial liberalisation as well as financial innovation. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD