This text presents a synthesis of ideas and professional experience to address the complex area of environmental assessment. In keeping with the approach outlined in federal law--NEPA--and its impl…
Argues that a surge in capital transfer was responsible for the Reagan and Thatcher revolutions and that, in order to take advantage of these conditions, taxes and tariffs must be kept low, but tha…
With the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, any pretense of a connection of the world's currencies to any real commodity has been abandoned. Yet since the 1980s, most central banks have abando…
An engaging look at the road to a sustained economic recovery. The global finance system can be regulated to prevent massive credit fraud, tame capitalism, confront the sovereign debt crisis, and m…
Presents the policies and strategies of a wide-ranging group of ministerial personalities, central bankers, regulators and chief or senior executives of major financial and industrial groups. Their…
Tsuyoshi Oyama, an experienced risk management professional, has produced a valuable and insightful examination of the causes of the global financial crisis, the initial public sector responses to …
How should governments and central banks use monetary policy to create a healthy economy? Traditionally, policymakers have used such strategies as controlling the growth of the money supply or pegg…
This book assesses the need to secure policy consistency, the scope for inflation targeting, the sustainability of exchange rate regimes and the scope for deeper financial integration in the Austra…
From the brightest minds in the field―a revealing look at how countries use their currencies to achieve prosperity . . . and the coming repercussions Bloomberg Television's Sara Eisen sheds li…
This book provides an alternative view of the workings of foreign exchange markets. The authors' modeling approach is based on the idea that agents use simple forecasting rules and switch to t…