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“alexis drach”

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  • Financial Deregulation

    A Historical Perspective

    Edited by Alexis Drach, Youssef Cassis ...
    A wave of liberalization swept the developed world at end of the twentieth century. From the 1970s and 1980s onwards, most developed countries have passed various measures to liberalize and modernize the financial markets. Each country had its agenda, but most of them have experienced, to a different extent, a change in regulatory regime. This change, often labeled deregulation and associated with ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

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    What Can Be Done?

    by Anthony B. Atkinson ...
    Winner of the Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton UniversityAn Economist Best Economics and Business Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the YearInequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Curbed in the decades after World War II, it has recently returned with a vengeance. We all know the scale of ... Read more

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  • The Anatomy of Corporate Law

    A Comparative and Functional Approach

    by Reinier Kraakman, John Armour, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Henry Hansmann, Gerard Hertig, Klaus Hopt, Hideki Kanda, Mariana Pargendler, Wolf-Georg Ringe, Edward Rock ...
    This is the long-awaited third edition of this highly regarded comparative overview of corporate law. This edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to reflect the profound changes in corporate law and governance practices that have taken place since the previous edition. These include numerous regulatory changes following the financial crisis of 2007-09 and the changing landscape of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • How Global Currencies Work

    Past, Present, and Future

    by Barry Eichengreen, Arnaud Mehl, Livia Chitu ...
    A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuanAt first glance, the modern history of the global economic system seems to support the long-held view that the leading world power’s currency—the British pound, the U.S. dollar, and perhaps someday the Chinese yuan—invariably dominates international trade and finance. In How Global Currencies Work, three ... Read more

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  • Formalization of Banking Supervision

    19th–20th Centuries

    by Eiji Hotori, Mikael Wendschlag, Thibaud Giddey ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book is the first attempt to elaborate the formalization phase of banking supervision in eight developed countries—USA, Japan, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France, and UK. This innovative study in the field of banking supervision history identifies why national histories of banking supervision share similarities, but also remain different and are heavily path dependent. ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History

    Edited by Youssef Cassis, Catherine R. Schenk, Richard S. Grossman ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The financial crisis of 2008 aroused widespread interest in banking and financial history among policy makers, academics, journalists, and even bankers, in addition to the wider public. References in the press to the term 'Great Depression' spiked after the failure of Lehman Brothers in November 2008, with similar surges in references to 'economic history' at various times during the financial ... Read more

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  • Empty Promises

    Why Workplace Pension Law Doesn’t Deliver Pensions

    by Elizabeth Shilton ...
    Workplace pensions are a vital part of Canada’s retirement income system, but these plans have reached a state of crisis as a result of their low coverage and inadequate, insecure, and unequally distributed benefits. Reviewing pension plans through a legal and historical lens, Empty Promises reveals the paradoxical effects and inevitable failure of a pension system built on the interests of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Smart Fiscal Consolidation

    A Strategy for Achieving Sustainable Public Finances and Growth

    by Galina Kolev, Jürgen Matthes ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    Due to high government debt levels and the dangers of self-defeating austerity in Europe, smart fiscal consolidation measures are needed that foster economic growth. A thorough review of the relevant literature provides many useful insights. To regain credibility, a clearly communicated broad reform program (including structural reforms) is required. Targeting mainly public expenditures, rather ... Read more

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  • The Financialization of Housing

    A political economy approach

    by Manuel B. Aalbers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    Due to the financialization of housing in today’s market, housing risks are increasingly becoming financial risks. Financialization refers to the increasing dominance of financial actors, markets, practices, measurements and narratives. It also refers to the resulting structural transformation of economies, firms, states and households. This book asserts the centrality of housing to the ... Read more

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  • The Power of Inaction

    Bank Bailouts in Comparison

    by Cornelia Woll ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    Bank bailouts in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the onset of the Great Recession brought into sharp relief the power that the global financial sector holds over national politics, and provoked widespread public outrage. In The Power of Inaction, Cornelia Woll details the varying relationships between financial institutions and national governments by comparing national bank ... Read more

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  • Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in Europe

    Edited by Luigi Bernardi, Paola Profeta ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    The last decade has seen important changes taking place in the tax regimes of many European countries. A comprehensive picture of what is happening in European fiscal systems has not been easy to find - until now. This impressive book featuring contributions from leading scholars, will be of great interest not only to academics but also to those involved in the financial sectors across the world. ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Sveriges Riksbank and the History of Central Banking

    Edited by Rodney Edvinsson, Tor Jacobson, Daniel Waldenström ...
    Series series Studies in Macroeconomic History
    Written in celebration of its 350th anniversary in 2018, this book details the history of the central bank of Sweden, Sveriges Riksbank, as presented by Klas Fregert. It relates the bank's history to the development of other major central banks around the world. Chapters are written by some of the more prominent scholars in the field of monetary economics and economic history. These chapters ... Read more

    $121.99 CAD