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Bankers' Trust
Commentators on international finance have for a long time been fascinated by the characters of leading central bankers and their personal relationships. Aditi Sahasrabuddhe of Brown University...
Chokepoints
This is an account of the use by the United States of economic and financial sanctions as a weapon of foreign policy. The author is a former official of the United States State Department, the...
Central Banking and Monetary Policy Implementation, Volume I
The theory of central banking has received an inordinate amount of attention over the past few decades from economists, sociologists, political scientists and indeed politicians. The practice of...
The Business of History
This book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
The Laissez-Faire Experiment
Why Britain's attempt at small government proved unable to cope with the challenges of the modern world
The Two-Parent Privilege
Based on more than a decade of economic research, including her original work, Kearney shows that a household that includes two married parents ― holding steady at the higher end of the socioeconomic scale, increasingly rare among almost everyone else ― functions as an economic vehicle that advantages some children over others.
The Chancellors
In this fascinating insider account, based on in-depth interviews with the Chancellors and key senior officials, Howard Davies shows how the past twenty-five years have nonetheless been a roller-coaster ride for the Treasury.
The Bank of England and the Government Debt:
Drawing heavily on archival research, William A. Allen sheds light on little-known aspects of central-banking and monetary policy.
Connectedness and Contagion
The Dodd--Frank Act of 2010 was intended to reform financial policies in order to prevent another massive crisis such as the financial meltdown of 2008. Dodd--Frank is largely premised on the diagnosis that connectedness was the major problem in that crisis -- that is, that financial institutions were overexposed to one another, resulting in a possible chain reaction of failures. In this book, Hal Scott argues that it is not connectedness but contagion that is the most significant element of systemic risk facing the financial system.