Author: Jan Toporowski
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: theories, smith, present, day, adam, critical, financial, disturbance, examination, finance
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 2006-07-06
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1845427637
ISBN-13: 9781845427634

Theories of Financial Disturbance, now available in paperback, examines how the operations of market-driven finance may initiate and transmit disturbances to the economy at large, by looking in detail at how various economists envisaged such disturbances occurring. This book is more than just a study in the history of economic thought - it illustrates how economic debate focuses upon financial disturbance at times of financial instability, and then conveniently discards critical views when such instability recedes. Jan Toporowski looks at the development of critical theories from the views

Authors:David Mayes, Jan Toporowski,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: international, studies, money, banking, routledge, markets, market, operations, financial, open
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-07-11
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0415417759
ISBN-13: 9780415417754

A mixture of academic and practitioner research, this is the most detailed book available that provides an account of open market operations. With broad international appeal it includes discussions of central bank operations in Europe, North America, Australia and Japan. Exploring the effectiveness of short-term interest rates and other modern central bank activities in monetary policy and the effect of structural changes in the securities markets and greater liquidity upon them, this volume represents a unique exchange of views between central bankers. It covers a range of topics including: