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2009
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John Cassidy describes the rising influence of what he calls utopian economics--thinking that is blind to how real people act and that denies the many ways an unregulated free market can produce disastrous unintended consequences. He then looks to the leading edge of economic theory, including behavioral economics, to offer a new understanding of the economy--one that casts aside the old assumption that people and firms make decisions purely on the...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. In this unusual event, Bernanke revealed important background and insights into the central bank's crucial actions during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Taken directly from these historic...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2013
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"Winner of the 2013 Spear's Book Award in Financial History" "Co-Winner of the 2014 Bronze Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards" "One of The Motley Fool's (John Reeves) 10 Great Books on American Economic History 2014" "One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best History Books of 2013" "One of Bloomberg News' Top Business Books of 2013" "One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Nonfiction Books of the Year for 2013 in Business and Economics" "One of Bloomberg/Businessweek...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
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The former chairman of the Federal Reserve documents his rise from a Southern youth to Ivy League professorships prior to the 2007 housing bubble burst, detailing the dramatic efforts to salvage the U.S. economy that made him "Time" magazine's 2009 Person of the Year.
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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The meeting of world leaders at Bretton Woods in 1944 was the only time countries from around the world agreed to overhaul the structure of the international monetary system. The system they set up presided over the longest, strongest, and most stable period of growth the world economy has ever seen. At the very heart of the conference was the love-hate relationship between the Briton John Maynard Keynes, the greatest economist of his day, and his...
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1992
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The Nobel Prize–winning economist explains how value is created, and how that affects everything from your paycheck to global markets. One of the leading figures of the Chicago school of economics that rejected the theories of John Maynard Keynes offers a journey through history to illustrate the importance of understanding monetary economics, and how monetary theory can ignite or deepen inflation. With anecdotes revealing the far-reaching consequences...
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Princeton University Press
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[1971, c1963]
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Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly achievement--monumental in its sheer bulk, monumental in the definitiveness of its treatment of innumerable issues, large and small . . . monumental,...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"In this book, Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States. Spanning twelve presidents, from John F. Kennedy to Joe Biden, and eight Federal Reserve chairs, from William McChesney Martin to Jerome Powell, this is an insider's story of macroeconomic policy...
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University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2011
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The world runs on the US dollar. From Washington to Beijing, governments, businesses, and individuals rely on the dollar to conduct commerce and invest profitably and safely. But how did the greenback achieve this planetary dominance a mere century and a half after President Lincoln issued the first currency backed only by the credit-and credibility-of the federal government?
In “Greenback Planet”, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the...
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R.D. Irwin
Pub. Date
1962
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Financial observer and journalist Walter Bagehot sheds light on the world of banking in his influential tract Written in response to a nineteenth-century banking crisis in England, Walter Bagehot's influential treatise was one of the first to clearly explain complex financial systems like international banking, currency, and corporate finance in clear and easy-to-understand language. Credit, Bagehot suggests, is based primarily on trust. When the...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2006
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Frederic S. Mishkin is Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Federal Reserve's board of governors. He is the author of many books, including Monetary Policy Strategy (MIT), The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets and (with Ben S. Bernanke, Thomas Laubach, and Adam S. Posen)...
14) The great devaluation: how to embrace, prepare, and profit from the coming global monetary reset
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
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"The Great Devaluation is about the imminent and future failure of the global monetary system. Governments around the world have undertaken massive stimulus programs and printed trillions of new dollars in an effort to stimulate their sagging economies. Central Banks have manipulated their balance sheets, lowered interest rates to 0%, and dramatically expanded the global money supply. The world has never witnessed such a dramatic one-two punch of...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
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"Dr. Mohamed A. El-Erian, one of the world's most influential economic thinkers and the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of When Markets Collide, has written a roadmap to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis. Our current economic path is coming to an end. The signposts are all around us: sluggish growth, rising inequality, stubbornly high pockets of unemployment,...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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"The independence of the Federal Reserve is considered a cornerstone of its identity, crucial for keeping monetary policy decisions free of electoral politics. But do we really understand what is meant by "Federal Reserve independence"? Using scores of examples from the Fed's rich history, The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve shows that much common wisdom about the nation's central bank is inaccurate. Legal scholar and financial historian...
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Axios Press
Pub. Date
c2009
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In responding to the financial crash of 2008, both the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration have relied on prescriptions developed by John Maynard Keynes, the most important economist since Marx. But should we be relying on Keynes? What did Keynes actually say? Did he make his case? Hunter Lewis concludes that he did not. If Keynes was wrong then so are the economic policies of virtually all world governments today.
Now with linked endnotes...
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) was one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. He was professor of economics at Harvard University and served as U.S. ambassador to India during the Kennedy administration. He wrote more than fifty books, including American Capitalism, The Affluent Society, and The New Industrial State (Princeton).
Money is nothing more than what is commonly exchanged for goods or services, so why has understanding...
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Encounter Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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"This book is about the partnership of God and Mammon in the New World--- about how Americans have made money and lost money, and about how they have thought about that obsessive and peculiarly American subject. Money is the basic American thing, the life's blood of the country. God and Mammon shows how the dynamics of money in its many dimensions (material, spiritual, cultural, psychological) worked to make America what it is. It traces the grand...
