Product Description: Aimed at exposing popular economic fallacies, this revised edition clarifies basic concepts while demonstrating the practical uses of economic theory. Topics touched upon include the supposed dangers of free trade, the abilities of governments to control the economy, the effects of government regulation, and whether millions of jobs depend on our continued membership of the European Union...read more

Product Description: Many financial institutions have in recent years failed – failed either completely, and gone into bankruptcy, or failed in the sense that they have not achieved what their owners or their customers expected them to deliver. This has had significant and adverse effects on customers, taxpayers, shareholders, and sometimes management...read more

Product Description: This book examines the area of financial regulation in the banking sector. Editors Mayes and Wood bring together such acadmics as Charles Goodhart, Charles Calomiris and Kern Alexander whose expertise shines through this volume to provide a reference tool for researchers, students and bankers themselves which will prove invaluable...read more

Product Description: "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 research from the early stages of economic thought, but payment system research has attracted increased academic attention only in the past decade...read more

Product Description: The activities of central banks are relevant to everyone in society. This book starts by considering how and why in general central banks evolved and specifically the special aspects of the contribution of the Northern European Central Banking Tradition...read more

Product Description: Monetary policy is still one of the most contested areas of modern economics, and since the original publication of Policy Makers on Policy much has changed. This new edition collects contributions from leading policy makers and practitioners to reflect on the aims and objectives of monetary policy and on what it can achieve, combining the old chapters from Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Kenneth Clarke, Geoffrey Howe, Nigel Lawson, and others, with new perspectives from Mervyn King, Jean-Claude Trichet, Ernst Welteke, Otmar Issing, and Alastair Darling...read more

Product Description: Providing an introduction to and overview of the economic analysis of law, this book shows the importance of economic analysis to legal theory and practice. It provides a reliable introduction to property rights, cost-benefit analysis, public choice theory, and other economic approaches, set in the context of the study of the law...read more

Product Description: The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in which some members of the European Union have joined, has prompted much discussion of monetary union. Most of this discussion has focused on the immediate issues, such as prospects for the Euro and the possibility of expanding the Euro-zone...read more

This text contains a selection of the Wincott lectures, given by eminent economists. These lectures are an example of how important concepts can be communicated simply. Each one should advance understanding of the market economy and how it relates to political decisions.

Product Description: Monetary and exchange rate policies of national monetary authorities, together with certain of their consequences, provide the common theme for the studies in this volume. Four of the contributions are mainly concerned with exchange rate policy-decisions to alter fixed parities, intervention by central banks in foreign exchange markets, and the determinants of exchange rates including intervention and the degree of capital mobility...read more