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Intelligent IT Outsourcing
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 74.95Intelligent IT Outsourcing enables practitioners to focus in on the essential issues that need to be addressed so that the fundamental structure of their sourcing strategy and its implementation is sound. The authors provide insight into the challenges likely to be faced and give detailed advice on how to pre-empt and manage these. IT and outsourcing... more...
Rational Expectations and Inflation (Third Edition)
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 39.95This collection of essays uses the lens of rational expectations theory to examine how governments anticipate and plan for inflation, and provides insight into the pioneering research for which Thomas Sargent was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics. Rational expectations theory is based on the simple premise that people will use all the information... more...
Financing Regional Growth and the Inter-American Development Bank
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00The crisis of the current global financial order is challenging us to critically reflect on how this order has been driven, and the development outcomes produced by its central political and economic actors. There is a great deal of academic knowledge about the role of the international financial institutions, powerful states and capital markets in... more...
Financial Cooperatives and Local Development
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00This book examines the opportunities opened up for financial cooperatives by the recent financial crisis, and explores the role of these institutions in promoting and sustaining local development. The global financial crisis has not only shown the limits of the mainstream theory of markets and rational expectations, but has also generated a great... more...
Banking and Finance in West Germany (RLE Banking & Finance)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 100.00This is a clear guide to the German financial system. It begins by outlining its historical development, emphasising the growth of close ties between the banking system and industry, and goes on to describe in details the nature of the credit institutions in general and the money and capital markets. The book emphasizes the crucial role played... more...
Banking in an Unregulated Environment
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 100.00The study of financial history has never been more important. This volume focuses on theories about the relationship of financial markets to the rest of the economy. Searching out information on financial institutions and markets from the past, this work tests theories from the 1980s and 90s with this data, mainly in two fields of economics: financial... more...
Debtors' Prison
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 26.95One of our foremost economic thinkers challenges a cherished tenet of today?s financial orthodoxy: that spending less, refusing to forgive debt, and shrinking government??austerity??is the solution to a persisting economic crisis like ours or Europe?s, now in its fifth year. Since the collapse of September 2008, the conversation about economic recovery... more...
Eight European Central Banks (RLE Banking & Finance)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00Uniquely written from inside the banking world this book gives a comprehensive account of the organization and activities of the major central European banks during the 1980s. Each of the individually authored chapters has been written to a common pattern in order to facilitate reference and comparison. Each also contains an annex with a specimen... more...
Montagu Norman (RLE Banking & Finance)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 115.00This volume is not a biography of Montagu Norman (Governor of the Bank of England from 1920-1944). Rather it provides a comprehensive and balanced picture of his policy and work, and in particular the role Montagu Norman played behind the scenes in political developments. The book takes as one of its sources hitherto scarce material from Norman?s... more...
Risk and Bank Expansion into Nonbanking Businesses (RLE: Banking & Finance)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 100.00This book conducts a simulation study creating universal, hypothetical bank holding companies (BHCs) through mergers to examine whether BHC expansion into nonbank business areas, those currently prohibited by law, will increase the riskiness of the universal BHCs. Part 2 reviews the contemporaneous literature and Part 3 discusses the weaknesses of... more...









