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    How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort

    Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street, published in 1873 in the wake of a devastating London bank collapse, explained in clear and straightforward terms why central banks must serve as the lender of last resort to ensure liquidity in a faltering credit system. Bagehot's book set down the principles that helped define the role of modern central banks, particularly in times of crisis--but the recent ... Read more

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  • Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance

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  • Money and Empire

    Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System

    Series series Studies in New Economic Thinking
    Charles Kindleberger ranks as one of the twentieth century's best known and most influential international economists. This book traces the evolution of his thinking in the context of a 'key-currency' approach to the rise of the dollar system, here revealed as the indispensable framework for global economic development since World War II. Unlike most of his colleagues, Kindleberger was deeply ... Read more

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  • Business Cycles and Equilibrium

    by Fischer Black ...
    An updated look at what Fischer Black's ideas on business cycles and equilibrium mean todayThroughout his career, Fischer Black described a view of business fluctuations based on the idea that a well-developed economy will be continually in equilibrium. In the essays that constitute this book, which is one of only two books Black ever wrote, he explores this idea thoroughly and reaches some ... Read more

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  • Money and Growth

    Selected Papers of Allyn Abbott Young

    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    Allyn Young is one of the central figures in the development of American economic thought, and is one of the originators of modern endogenous growth theory. This book allows full appreciation of the full extent of Young's work because many of his most significant contributions are buried in obscure journals and unsigned articles. This volume addres ... Read more

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  • Debt, Crisis and Recovery: The 1930's and the 1990's

    The 1930's and the 1990's

    This book provides a perspective by a prominent economist on the problems of debt, recession, and recovery in the 1930s as compared with the 1990s. The book begins with several chapters on the explosion of debt in the public and private sectors during the 1970s and 1980s, and its implications for economic stagnation and recession that seem to plague the economy. Resolution of the debt problem and ... Read more

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  • The Money Problem

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    by Morgan Ricks ...
    An "intriguing plan" addressing shadow banking, regulation, and the continuing quest for financial stability ( Financial Times).Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, many central questions remain unanswered. Should money creation be considered a "public" or "private" activity—or both? What do we ... Read more

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  • Engineering the Financial Crisis

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  • What Caused the Financial Crisis

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  • Central Banking, Asset Prices and Financial Fragility

    Series series Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
    The current literature on central banking contains two distinct branches. On the one side, research focuses on the impact of monetary policy on economic growth, unemployment, and output-price inflation, while ignoring financial aspects. On the other side, some scholars leave aside macroeconomics in order to study the narrow, but crucial, subjects of financial behaviours, and financial supervision ... Read more

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