Product Description: This volume contains the correspondence between G.L.S. Shackle and S.F. Frowen from the time Shackle took up his first post-war academic appointment until his death in 1992. The correspondence, partly personal and partly professional, reveals a vital insight into Shackle both as a man and as an outstanding economist...read more

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Recent decades have seen a sharp increase in financial competition, intensified by globalization. Excessive risk-taking leading to inevitable business failures at times reached worrying proportions. This volume attempts to analyze and explain financial market developments at the turn of the millennium with special reference to the UK and Germany. The emphasis of the papers is on the need for greater accountability and a more ethical approach to financial decision-making.

This collection of essays offer a rare insight, from the inside, into the operations of Europe's most powerful central bank. The individual contributions explain the historical, legal and institutional basis of German internal and external monetary policy, highlighting the goals of the central bank and its role in the economy as a whole.

Product Description: This volume provides a critical assessment of the wide spectrum of Hayek's celebrated work as economist and social philosopher. Included are papers on Hayek's early writings in the field of monetary economics, on which his later campaign against inflation, his controversial proposal for competing currencies, and his negative view of the impact of trade unions on the economy are based...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This volume provides a critical assessment of the wide spectrum of Hayek's celebrated work as economist and social philosopher. Included are papers on Hayek's early writings in the field of monetary economics.

A dozen studies consider the experiment from the perspectives of international consequences, the relationship between monetary policy and the real sector of the German economy, and the old economic question of whether money matters. Among the specific topics are the crisis in the European monetary system, incentives for growth and development, and challenges for both parts of Germany. Ten of the papers are from a conference in Swansea, Wales, in March 1995; many are followed by comments. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays takes a hard look at the gap between increasingly costs expectations of welfare including other social needs and available revenues. It shows that the issue is not a purely economic and certainly not a party-political one, but that it has significant ethical, some call it spiritual, components. From providing initially a broad account of welfare economics it presents contributions from political philosophers and theologians as well as accounts of successful initiatives to indicate the direction for solutions which will correspond to the complex realities of post-modern society.

Product Description: The topics discussed include the role and responsibilities of central banking, inbuilt deficiencies of the financial system, moral conflicts in commercial and investment banking and in securities markets, problems of sovereignty and hegemony in the European monetary union, moral issues in international monetary relations, the ethics of capital transfers to eastern Europe and of financial liberalisation...read more

Product Description: These conference proceedings bring together 12 new essays on a variety of key issues in the field of domestic and international monetary economics. They cover aspects of monetary theory as well as monetary policy, the prime objective being the development of intellectual tools in order to find new ways of thinking to existing and new monetary problems in an increasingly unstable world economy marked by rapid and often unexpected changes, partly caused by the disappearance of boundaries for financial transactions...read more

Product Description: A collection of papers dicussing unknowledge and choice in economics. The topics focus especially on G.L.S.Shackle's theories and his place in subjectivist thought but also include time, choice and dynamics in economics and interest rates and investment decisions.

Product Description: The turbulent 1970s and 80s have seen important developments in the area of money and banking. Most of these are discussed here while four issues are treated at some greater length. These are financial innovations; the EMS and international monetary systems; certain issues in montary policy arising from recent developments in monetary economics, such as monetary policy in an interdependent world and liquidity constraints and monetary policy; and monetary problems of developing countries...read more