The impacts of monetary policy in the 21st Century

perspectives from emerging economies

Since the turn of the 21st century, the global economy has faced several significant financial crises such as the monetary mismanagements of the EURO Zone countries struggling with sovereign debt problems, the Global Financial Crisis between 2007 and 2009 preceded by the housing market collapse ...

La apuesta por el decrecimiento

¿cómo salir del imaginario dominante?

El término #decrecimiento# suena a desafío o a provocación, aunque seamos conscientes de que un crecimiento infinito es incompatible con un mundo limitado. El objeto de esta obra es demostrar que, aunque un cambio radical es una necesidad absoluta, optar voluntariamente por una sociedad de ...

La gran revelación

de cómo la Teoría Monetaria "Moderna" pretende salvarnos del capitalismo salvando el capitalismo

Aunque es poco conocida en nuestro país, la llamada Teoría Monetaria 'Moderna' (TMM) sueña con convertirse en el nuevo referente económico de la izquierda reformista. Sus sorprendentes ideas sobre la naturaleza del dinero contemporáneo y sobre el poder monetario de los Estados parecen abrir las ...

Capital markets union and beyond

Experts from economics, finance, law, policy, and banking discuss the design and implementation of a future capital market union in Europe. The plan for further development of Europe's economic and monetary union foresees the creation of a capital market union (CMU)—a single market ...

The new environmental economics

Too often, economics disassociates humans from nature, the economy from the biosphere that contains it, and sustainability from fairness. When economists do engage with environmental issues, they typically reduce their analysis to a science of efficiency that leaves aside issues of distributional analysis and justice ...

Money

Few economic phenomena provoke as much confusion as money. From the first measures of value and the physical coins that circulated at the dawn human civilization to the era of ‘virtual’ money transmitted through cyberspace, it is ubiquitous and hugely important, yet economists cannot even ...

Money in a human economy

A human economy puts people first in emergent world society. Money is a human universal and now takes the divisive form of capitalism. This book addresses how to think about money (from Aristotle to the daily news and the sexual economy of luxury goods); its ...

The debt delusion

living within our means and other fallacies

The basic public understanding of how a government should handle its debt is debunked as misinformed in this primer for people looking to cut through the rhetoric and misinformation.

Why austerity persists

The ongoing appeal of austerity to the right-wing and centre-right governments across the globe in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis is considered in relation to austerity's evident ineffectiveness and tyranny.

The case for community wealth building

Guinan and O'Neill argue that traditional economic strategies waste billions and the transformational effects of community wealth building would be preferable.

Central Bank policy

theory and practice

Discussion focuses on philosophical and conceptual theories that have key implications for central bank policy making and findings are supported by relevant quantitative analyses and case studies reflecting recent issues with respect to centralized financial policy making, including the adoption of the Inflation Targeting Framework ...

Behavioural Macroeconomics

theory and policy

Modern macroeconomics has been based on the paradigm of the rational individual capable of understanding the complexity of the world. This has created a very shallow theory of the business cycle in which nothing happens in the macroeconomy unless shocks occur from outside. Behavioural Macroeconomics ...

After the crash

financial crises and regulatory responses

The 2008 crash was the worst financial crisis and the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression. It triggered a complete overhaul of the global regulatory environment, ushering in a stream of new rules and laws to combat the perceived weakness of the financial ...

The limits of the market

the pendulum between government and market

The old discussion of 'Market or State' is obsolete. There will always have to be a mix of market and state. The only relevant question is what that mix should look like. How far do we have to let the market go its own way ...

The political economy of international trade

An outline and analysis of the dynamics of trade in the twenty-first century in relation to the prevalence of protectionist sentiment.

Introducción a la Macroeconomía

Este manual reúne el contenido teórico básico e imprescindible para abordar un curso introductorio a la Macroeconomía en el marco de los programas universitarios de Grado del área de Economía y Empresa. El libro está estructurado en quince capítulos con una estructura homogénea pensada para ...

Unbound

how inequiality constricts our economy and what we can do about it

From one of Washington's most influential voices on economic policy, a lively and original argument that reducing inequality is not just fair but also key to delivering broadly shared economic growth and stability. Do we have to choose between equality and prosperity? Many think ...

Radical markets

uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just society

Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to achieve fairness and prosperity for all Many blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking on its head ...

Beating the Odds

jump-starting developing countries

How poor countries can ignite economic growth without waiting for global action or the creation of ideal local conditions Countries that ignite a process of rapid economic growth almost always do so while lacking what experts say are the essential preconditions for development, such as ...

Growth

from microorganism to megacities

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes ...