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  • Geopolitical shifts, economic and financial fragmentation – Volume 2. The era of restructuring

    Series series Revue d'économie financière
    Under the co-direction of Bruno Cabrillac and Pierre Jaillet, issue 161 of the Revue d’économie financière is an extension of issue 160 on geopolitical shifts and their geoeconomic consequences. It is being published both in French and English.The first volume (“The Era of Disruption”) analyzed the geoeconomic consequences of a systemic “polycrisis”, which has revealed the tensions arising from a ... Read more

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  • How Global Currencies Work

    Past, Present, and Future

    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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  • This Time Is Different

    Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

    Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different"--claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. With this breakthrough study, leading ... Read more

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    Series series Pelican Books
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  • Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods

    Series series Cairoli Lectures
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    Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth-and How to Fix It

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracyAround the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest engine of growth, now struggles to overcome unprecedented ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of the International Monetary Fund

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of International Organizations
    In its more than 65 years of existence, the International Monetary Fund has evolved from a small, obscure international agency, with new and uncertain responsibilities, into a powerful institution that today has assumed center stage in the international monetary system. It is a remarkable story of how an institution has developed and adapted itself to an evolving world and a changing membership in ... Read more

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    A penetrating critique tracing how under-regulated trading between European and U.S. banks led to the 2008 financial crisis—with a prescription for preventing another meltdown There have been numerous books examining the 2008 financial crisis from either a U.S. or European perspective. Tamim Bayoumi is the first to explain how the Euro crisis and U.S. housing crash were, in fact, parasitically ... Read more

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  • A Capitalism for the People

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