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1. Currencies and Currency Policies in the Global Economy

   By Kurt Hübner

   This book explains the volatility of the global foreign exchange markets by the interplay of political strategies and actions of market makers, looking at currency strategies put in place by the US, the Euro zone, Japan, China, and also Canada....

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-48265-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. The Anti Money Laundering Complex and the Compliance Industry

   By Antoinette Verhage

   Financial institutions, as gateways to the financial system, to economic power and possibilities, are one of the major vehicles for money laundering and therefore also represent an important means to prevent this type of crime. The compliance officer symbolises a part of this private investment in...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-60076-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Social Banks and the Future of Sustainable Finance

   By Olaf Weber, Sven Remer

   In the context of the current financial crisis social banking offers an alternative to conventional banking in stressing the opportunities for banks to positively influence the financial, economic and sustainable development. The book describes and explains the history, the current state and the...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-58329-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. The Israeli Central Bank: Political Economy, Global Logics and Local Actors

   By Daniel Maman, Zeev Rosenhek

   This book examines the local and global political and institutional processes that have led to the strengthening of the Israeli central bank within the context of the now predominant neoliberal regime. Using Israel as a case study to identify broader patterns around the world, the authors examine...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-57328-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Monetary and Banking History: Essays in Honour of Forrest Capie

   Edited by Geoffrey Wood, Terence Mills, Nicholas Crafts

   Forrest Capie is an eminent economic historian who has published extensively on a wide range of topics, with an emphasis on banking and monetary history, particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also in other areas such as tariffs and the interwar economy. He is also a former...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-45146-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Keynes on Monetary Policy, Finance and Uncertainty: Liquidity Preference Theory and the Global Financial Crisis

   By Jorg Bibow

   This book provides a reassessment of Keynes’ theory of liquidity preference. It argues that the failure of the Keynesian revolution to be made in either theory or practice owes importantly to the fact that the role of liquidity preference theory as a pivotal element in Keynes’ General Theory has...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-61647-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. The Capital Needs of Central Banks

   Edited by Sue Milton, Peter Sinclair

   Central banks have evolved over many years, and sometimes centuries, as policy-making, not profit-making, institutions, and yet they are structured legally and financially like ‘for-profit’ companies of the twenty-first century. The question is what is an appropriate level of equity, or capital,...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-55328-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Living Standards and Social Well-Being

   Edited by Deborah Figart, John Marangos

   Too many of the world’s citizens face impoverished living standards. The economic and financial crises have made matters worse. The viewpoint of Living Standards and Social Well-Being is that the fundamental objective for an economy is provisioning, not simply efficiency. The chapters in this...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-58918-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives

   Edited by Bernado Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Paul Thomes

   This edited volume offers a new and original approach to the study of technological change in retail finance. Documenting developments in the US alongside case studies from Mexico and Europe, Technological Innovation in Retail Finance addresses the variety of financial institutions that...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-88067-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. The Global Financial Crisis

    Edited by Mark Taylor, Richard Clarida

    The global financial crisis has sent shockwaves through the world’s economies, and its effects have been deep and wide-reaching. This book brings together a range of applied studies, covering a range of international and regional experience in the area of finance in the context of the global...

    October 2010 | 978-0-415-58914-7 | Hardback (Routledge)