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  • A Fistful of Bitcoins

    The Risks and Opportunities of Virtual Currencies

    by Massimo Amato, Luca Fantacci ...
    "Bitcoin poses the right question, but gives the wrong answer," write Luca Fantacci and Massimo Amato in this lucid and highly original treatment of the cryptocurrency phenomenon. A Fistful of Bitcoins uncovers the paradoxes of the first "digital cash" to achieve global attention: a disruptive payment infrastructure married to a dangerous and deflationary monetary system. From the cryptographic ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of Finance

    by Massimo Amato, Luca Fantacci ...
    This new book by two distinguished Italian economists is a highly original contribution to our understanding of the origins and aftermath of the financial crisis. The authors show that the recent financial crisis cannot be understood simply as a malfunctioning in the subprime mortgage market: rather, it is rooted in a much more fundamental transformation, taking place over an extended time period, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • A Fistful of Bitcoins

    The Risks and Opportunities of Virtual Currencies

    by Massimo Amato, Luca Fantacci ...
    “Bitcoin poses the right question, but gives the wrong answer,” write Luca Fantacci and Massimo Amato in this lucid and highly original treatment of the cryptocurrency phenomenon. A Fistful of Bitcoins uncovers the paradoxes of the first “digital cash” to achieve global attention: a disruptive payment infrastructure married to a dangerous and deflationary monetary system. From the cryptographic ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Saving the Market from Capitalism

    Ideas for an Alternative Finance

    by Massimo Amato, Luca Fantacci ...
    This new book by two leading economists is a far-reaching analysis of the role and organization of the financial system in the aftermath of the economic crisis. The authors argue that the financial markets, as currently organized, hinder genuine market transactions and therefore harm the economy, along with any chance of sustained recovery.Despite the crisis, the power of the financial markets has ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us

    by John Quiggin ...
    In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream economics, and their influence created a system where an unthinking faith in markets led many to view ... Read more

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  • Central Banking in Theory and Practice

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    Alan S. Blinder offers the dual perspective of a leading academic macroeconomist who served a stint as Vice-Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board—one who practiced what he had long preached and then returned to academia to write about it. He tells central bankers how they might better incorporate academic knowledge and thinking into the conduct of monetary policy, and he tells scholars how they ... Read more

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  • Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market

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  • The Indispensable Milton Friedman

    Essays on Politics and Economics

    Edited by Lanny Ebenstein ...
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  • John Maynard Keynes

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  • The Nature of Money

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    In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the ‘social relation’ of money.Genuinely multidisciplinary approach, based on a thorough knowledge of theories of money in the social sciencesAn original development of the neglected heterodox theories of moneyNew histories of the origins and development of forms of money and ... Read more

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