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Central Banking in Theory and Practice
Alan S. Blinder
Издател: The MIT Press
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
The European Central Bank: History, Role and Functions
Hanspeter K. Scheller
Издател: European Central Bank
This book is designed to introduce the reader to the history, role and functions of the ECB within the framework of EMU. It is divided into six chapters dealing with the different aspects of the ECB as a policy-maker, as an organization of Community law and as the core and leader of the Eurosystem.
The Future of Europe
Alberto Alesina , Francesco Giavazzi
Издател: The MIT Press
Unless Europe takes action soon, its further economic and political decline is almost inevitable, economists Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi write in this provocative book. Without comprehensive reform, continental Western Europe's overprotected, overregulated economies will continue to slow—and its political influence will become
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke
Издател: Liberty Fund
Volume 2 consists of Burke's most renowned work, Reflections on the Revolution in France. In it, he excoriates French revolutionary leaders for recklessly destroying France's venerable institutions and way of life. He attempts not only to explain the events of the new revolution to his readers but also to persuade them that the revolution menaces
The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams
John Adams
Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.
The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams presents the principal shorter writings in which Adams addresses the prospect of revolution and the form of government proper to the new United States. Though one of the principal framers of the American republic and the successor to Washington as president, John Adams receives remarkably little attention
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
Издател: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject.
According to Gibbon, the Roman Empire succumbed to barbarian invasions in large part due to the gradual loss of civic virtue among its citizens. They had become
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Ayn Rand
Издател: Signet
This book is not a treatise on the economics of capitalism, but a collection of essays on the philosophy of capitalism: the basic truths and principles that make capitalism the only moral and practical social system — the only system consistent with man’s nature and the requirements of his life — the only one that enables each individual to
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