Product Description: What policies should be pursued by, first, the peripheral countries, like Greece and Eastern Europe, and, second, by the median countries, like Spain, to qualify for monetary union? How should the core countries coordinate their fiscal policies once in a monetary union? This book considers the widening and deepening process of European integration and is based on work carried out for DG II of the European Commission in 1992-05...read more

Product Description: 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

Product Description: The US is slowly recovering from the aftermath of the burst of the 'new economy' bubble - which was one of the worst in monetary history. In this updated edition, Philip Arestis and Elias Karakitsos examine the causes and consequences of the burst of the 'new economy' bubble and investigate the impact on financial markets...read more

The US is slowly recovering from the aftermath of the burst of the "new economy" bubble--which was one of the worst in monetary history. Philip Arestis and Elias Karakitsos examine the causes and consequences of the burst of the "new economy" bubble and investigate the impact on financial markets. The risks and long-term prospects for the economy and financial markets are also examined.

Product Description: This book aims to provide students with the principles needed to analyze the interrelationship of the main macroeconomic variables - output, inflation, interest rates, unemployment, exchange rates and budget deficits. The author uses 10 increasingly complex models to analyze how these variables are affected by policy variables such as tax rates and exogenous variables like world trade and the price of oil...read more

Product Description: This book aims to provide students with the principles needed to analyze the interrelationship of the main macroeconomic variables - output, inflation, interest rates, unemployment, exchange rates and budget deficits. The author uses 10 increasingly complex models to analyze how these variables are affected by policy variables such as tax rates and exogenous variables like world trade and the price of oil...read more