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The Changing Dynamics of Inflation

Remarks by Governor Randall Kroszner. Highlights: "Views about inflation process vary, but expectaions are at the heart of almost all of them. And in any model in which expectations are important, monetary policy will also be important."
The Federal Reserve Board, March 12 2007 , Rndall S. Kroszner

The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy

For Western economists and journalists, the most distinctive facet of the post-war Japanese business world has been the keiretsu, or the insular business alliances among powerful corporations. Within keiretsu groups, argue these observers, firms preferentially trade, lend money, take and receive technical and financial assistance, and cement their ties through cross-shareholding agreements. In The Fable of the Keiretsu, Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer demonstrate that all this talk is really just urban legend.
University of Chicago Press , Yoshiro Miwa, J. Mark Ramseyer

Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence

Their name is a byword for immense wealth and power, but before their renown as art patrons and noblemen the Medicis built their fortune on banking—specifically, on lending money at interest. Banking in the fifteenth century, even at the height of the Renaissance, meant running afoul of the Catholic Church's prohibition against usury. It required more than merely financial skills to make a profit, and the legendary Medicis—most famously Cosimo and Lorenzo ("the Magnificent")—were masterly in wielding the political, diplomatic, military, and even metaphysical tools that were needed to maintain their family's position.
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. , Tim Parks

Athenian Economy and Society: A Banking Perspective

In this ground-breaking analysis of the world's first private banks, Edward Cohen convincingly demonstrates the existence and functioning of a market economy in ancient Athens while revising our understanding of the society itself. Challenging the "primitivistic" view, in which bankers are merely pawnbrokers and money-changers, Cohen reveals that fourth-century Athenian bankers pursued sophisticated transactions.
Princeton University Press , Edward E. Cohen

Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economics of Music Composition in the Eighteenth and Ninteenth Centuries

How creative artists in the 18th. and 19th. centuries adapted to the vast economic and social changes that occured around them during the greatest era of musical composition. A novel cross-disciplinary arena between music and economic history.
Princeton University Press , F. M. Scherer

City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York

Full of fresh and insightful observations on how New Yorkers 'read' their city through a remarkable variety of public texts - outdoor signs, billboards and handbills, newspapers, and currency - in the first half of the nineteenth century
Columbia University Press , David M. Henkin, David M. Henkin

Money Makes the World Go around: One Investor Tracks Her Cash through the Global Economy, from Brooklyn to Bangkog and Back

Viking Adult, , February 2001 , Barbara Garson

Money and Monetary Policy for the Twenty-First Century

This essay challenges the conventional wisdom about money and monetary policy. The role of money in fostering prosperity is a function of the quality, as well as the quantity, of money.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, November/December 2006, 88(6), pp. 485-510. , Jerry L. Jordan

Diagnosing the System for Markets

In his books Stafford Beer presents a new way of looking at organisational structures; some of the terms and concepts could be applied in a financial markets context; here a few examples:
Investments Office , Ronald Weber

A Labour Shortage Can Be a Blessing, Not a Curse

Do rich nations need more poor workers? The answer is yes, according to the conventional wisdom, which finds expression in a new United Nations report on migration and development
New America Foundation-The Financial Times, June 9, 2006 , Michael Lind