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Radical change seems to be the only panacea for inefficient economies. With Yugoslavia as the example, the work discusses financial and monetary reforms and adjustments in socialist economies. General conclusions about recent monetary reforms in socialist economies completes the discussion.

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From the earliest bartering systems to today's sophisticated electronic transfers of billions of dollars in a split second, systems of exchange have conferred value upon goods and services and created the economic glue that binds individuals, businesses, communities, and nations together.

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Postbellum economic change in the United States required an efficient system by which capital could be transferred to areas where it was relatively scarce. In assessing the structure that evolved to meet this need, John James provides a new and convincing explanation of the forces underlying the integration of separate and local money markets to fo

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Budget deficits are features of over 80 percent of countries. This book analyses the macroeconomic impacts of these deficits largely with regard to their effects on money supply, comparing the characteristics of revenue and expenditure between the developing and the industrial countries.

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A new edition of a book presenting a unified framework for studying the role of money and liquid assets in the economy, revised and updated.

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Analyzing the motivating forces behind the trend toward Japanese direct overseas production, this work examines the appreciation of the yen, rising labor and energy costs, environmental decay, shortages of industrial sites, and critical dependence on overseas resources as factors in prompting Japanese firms to transfer production facilities abroad.

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Assessing the potential benefits and risks of a currency union. This book, by two leading experts on economics and Africa, makes a significant analytical contribution to the debates now under way about how Economic Community of West African States could achieve and manage its currency union, andthe ramifications for the African continent.

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Following the global financial crisis of 2008, China's major monetary policy objective is the internationalization of the renminbi, that is, to create an international role for its currency akin to the international role currently played by the US dollar. This book deals with this topic.

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As we approach the 21st century, we must rethink our centralized monetary system as part of a larger reexamination of existing political economy, according to Solomon.

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Tracing the history of the new nations of Mexico and the United States, Seijas and Frederick show how the creation of U.S. dollars and Mexican pesos paralleled these countries' efforts to establish enduring political and economic systems, clearly illustrating why these nations...

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A framework for macroprudential regulation that defines systemic risk and macroprudential policy, describes macroprudential tools, and surveys the effectiveness of existing macroprudential regulation.

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Writing from an interdisciplinary perspective that is both theoretical and practical, Brian Semkow analyses and discusses the scope and direction financial and capital market reform has taken in Taiwan, and its implications for existing and newly emerging financial institutions.

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Examines the evolution of Western European economies through the lens the recurring scarcity and depreciation of small change. This book tells the story of how monetary technologies, doctrines, and practices evolved from 1300 to 1850; of how the 'standard formula' was devised to address the dilemma without causing inflation.

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The major interconnections between money, credit-creating potential of central banks, and fiscal/deficit potential of government are emphasized. The principal central banks considered are the Bank of England, Federal Reserve, and Bundesbank.

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Presents an analysis of the rise and fall of US inflation after 1960. This book examines two explanations for the behavior of inflation and unemployment in this period: the natural-rate hypothesis joined to the Lucas critique and a more traditional econometric policy evaluation modified to include adaptive expectations and learning.

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In this collection, nine scholars present original research on the historical development of money and credit during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explore the social and cultural significance of financial phenomena from a global perspective. Chapters emphasize the...