Balance of power :
Author
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Books
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203 pages ; 23 cm
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Summary
"Reconsidering the limits-past, present, future-of the financial institutions that stand between us and the abyss. Two financial crises in two decades have expanded and diversified the roles of central banks in the twenty-first century. With the 2008 crash, they became the lenders of last resort in monetary policy; with Covid-19, they became underwriters of the public welfare. Both powers are expansive, unchecked, and inherently political. Is this democracy? In Balance of Power, economist and historian Éric Monnet traces the rise of the central banks-from their public-private origins to their current portfolio, which spans everything from interest rates to international relations-to make an urgent and erudite argument: the central banks are no longer independent, if they ever were. And our ability to subject them to democratic rule will go a long way in wielding their expansive powers effectively in societies that face multiple crises at once. Eschewing the traditional storytelling around the birth of central banks and their operational independence, Monnet shows how the power of central banks flows from their origins as a part of the welfare state: they were the financial apparatus used to stabilize societies after World War II, and they have never abdicated that role since. Today it can be seen in the central banks' role as insurance providers-the backstop institution of bailouts, stimuli, and rescue plans. As new challenges emerge, including the boom of digital currencies and the simmering crisis of climate change, central banks will necessarily have to break the glass on longstanding taboos of monetary policy. With this creeping expansion well underway, Monnet offers a trenchant, deeply erudite case for what a democratic central bank can look like"--
Call Number
332.1 MON
Publication Date
2024
Language
English
ISBN
9780226834139
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Collu$ion :
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Books
Physical Description
xix, 358 pages ; 25 cm
Edition
First edition.
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New York : Nation Books, 2018.
Summary
Exposes the collusion between central banks as they control the global markets and dictate economic policy, casting an unflinching spotlight on the dark conspiracies and unsavory connections within the halls of power.
Call Number
332.11 PRI
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781568585628
The Federal Reserve and the financial crisis
Author
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Books
Physical Description
134 pages ; 24 cm.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Call Number
330.973 BER
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
ISBN
9780691158730
Why save the bankers? :
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Books
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xii, 212 pages ; 22 cm
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Summary
Shares incisive commentary on the financial meltdown and its aftermath, counseling democratic societies on how to avoid the practices that have led to unregulated markets and economic inequality.
Call Number
330.94 PIK
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
ISBN
9780544663329 9780544868847
The shifts and the shocks :
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Books
Physical Description
xxii, 465 pages ; 24 cm
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New York, New York : Penguin Press, 2014.
Summary
"The book identifies the origin of the crisis in the complex interaction between globalization, hugely destabilizing global imbalances and our dangerously fragile financial system. In the eurozone, these sources of instability were multiplied by the tragically defective architecture of the monetary union. It also shows how much of the orthodoxy that shaped monetary and financial policy before the crisis occurred was complacent and wrong. In doing so, it mercilessly reveals the failures of the financial, political and intellectual elites who ran the system. The book also examines what has been done to reform the financial and monetary systems since the worst of the crisis passed. "Are we now on a sustainable course?" Wolf asks. "The answer is no." He explains with great clarity why "further crises seem certain" and why the management of the eurozone in particular "guarantees a huge political crisis at some point in the future." Wolf provides far more ambitious and comprehensive plans for reform than any currently being implemented"--
Electronic Access
Call Number
330.905 WOL
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
ISBN
9781594205446
Nation on the take :
Author
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Books
Physical Description
xi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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New York, NY : Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
Summary
American democracy has become coin operated. Special interest groups increasingly control every level of government. The necessity of raising huge sums of campaign cash has completely changed the character of politics and policy making, determining what elected representatives stand for and how they spend their time. The marriage of great wealth and intense political influence has rendered our country unable to address our most pressing problems, from runaway government spending to climate change to the wealth gap. It also defines our daily lives: from the cars we drive to the air we breathe to the debt we owe. In this work of reportage, two vigilant watchdogs expose legalized corruption and link it to the kitchen-table issues citizens face every day. Inciting our outrage, the authors then inspire us by introducing us to the army of reformers laying the groundwork for change. The battle plan for reform presented is practical, realistic, and concrete. No one--except some lobbyists and major political donors--likes business as usual, and this book intends to help forge a new army of reformers who are compelled by a patriotic duty to fight for a better democracy. An impassioned, infuriating, yet ultimately hopeful call to arms, this book lays bare the reach of moneyed interests and charts a way forward, toward the recovery of America's original promise.--Adapted from dust jacket.
Call Number
332.0973 POT
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
ISBN
9781632861092
Greenspan's fraud :
Author
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Books
Physical Description
278 pages ; 25 cm.
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005.
Call Number
332.11 BAT
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
ISBN
9781403968593
The man who knew :
Author
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Books
Physical Description
xv, 781 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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New York : Penguin Press, 2016.
Summary
A product of more than five years of research, Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan brings into focus the mysterious point where politics and the economy meet. Through Greenspan's story, Mallaby casts every presidency from Nixon to George W. Bush in a fresh new light. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill. The Man Who Knew is a searching reckoning with what exactly comprised the art, and the possible, in the career of Alan Greenspan. --
Call Number
B GREENSPAN
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
ISBN
9781594204845
In Fed we trust :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xii, 323 p ; ; 24 cm.
Edition
First edition
Production / Publication Information
New York : Crown Business, c2009.
Call Number
332.11 WES
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
ISBN
9780307459688 9780307459695
Secrets of the temple :
Author
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Books
Physical Description
798 pages ; 24 cm.
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New York : Simon and Schuster, c1987.
Call Number
332.1 G C.1
Publication Date
1987
Language
English
ISBN
9780671479893
Making the European monetary union
Author
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Books
Physical Description
xiv, 567 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Production / Publication Information
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Summary
"Europe's financial crisis cannot be blamed on the Euro, Harold James contends in this probing exploration of the whys, whens, whos, and what-ifs of European monetary union. The current crisis goes deeper, to a series of problems that were debated but not resolved at the time of the Euro's invention. Since the 1960s, Europeans had been looking for a way to address two conundrums simultaneously: the dollar{8217}s privileged position in the international monetary system, and Germany's persistent current account surpluses in Europe. The Euro was created under a politically independent central bank to meet the primary goal of price stability. But while the monetary side of union was clearly conceived, other prerequisites of stability were beyond the reach of technocratic central bankers. Issues such as fiscal rules and Europe-wide banking supervision and regulation were thoroughly discussed during planning in the late 1980s and 1990s, but remained in the hands of member states. That omission proved to be a cause of crisis decades later. Here is an account that helps readers understand the European monetary crisis in depth, by tracing behind-the-scenes negotiations using an array of sources unavailable until now, notably from the European Community's Committee of Central Bank Governors and the Delors Committee of 1988{8211}89, which set out the plan for how Europe could reach its goal of monetary union. As this foundational study makes clear, it was the constant friction between politicians and technocrats that shaped the Euro. And, Euro or no Euro, this clash will continue into the future."--The dust-jacket front flap.
Call Number
332.494 JAM
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
ISBN
9780674066830
The Summit Bretton Woods, 1944 :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xxv, 453 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Pegasus Books, c2015.
Call Number
332.46 CON
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
ISBN
9781605986814
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