Books on Banking, Money, Finance


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Banking, Money, Finance

  • Global (8)
  • Western Europe (1)

    Global

    Bank Freedom
    Source: Thomas Schauff
    Country: United States
    E-mail: author@bankfreedom.com
    Books on "unlocking the secrets the banking industry doesn't want you to know."

    The History of Money: From Sandstone to Cyberspace
    Source: Laissez Faire Books/Three Rivers Press
    Author: Jack Weatherford
    Country: United States
    A sweeping and entertaining history of money from the invention of coins 3000 years ago to today's electronic cash schemes (Paperback, 1997, 288 p., Laissez Faire price $12.95).

    The Creature from Jekyll Island
    Source: Reality Zone
    Author: G. Edward Griffin
    Country: United States
    Griffin's mammoth critique of the Federal Reserve scam, available in paperback, hard cover, audio, and bulk discount.

    The International Monetary Fund: Financial medic to the world?
    Source: Amazon.com/Hoover Institution
    Author: Lawrence J. McQuillan and Peter C. Montgomery (editors)
    Country: United States
    This volume provides background information and current public policy discussions on the International Monetary Fund. Contributors offer a variety of views on the IMF and its work, and on whether it should continue to exist. (3/99; Amazon price $15.96)

    The Business of Commerce: Examining an Honorable Profession
    Source: Amazon.com/Hoover Institution
    Author: James A. Chesher and Tibor R. Machan
    Country: United States
    Business has long had a bad reputation in Western culture. "The Business of Commerce" explores the diverse sources of that reputation, concluding that until a positive attitude emerges, economic prosperity will elude Western societies. (3/99; Amazon price $15.96)

    Denationalisation of Money
    Source: IEA
    Author: F. A. Hayek
    Country: United States
    "In the third edition of his classic, Professor Hayek argues that the problem of recurrent inflation is due to government monopoly provision of money, competition being the solution." (93pp. £9.95, Offer price: £3.00) (1978/90)

    Do We Need the IMF and the World Bank?
    Source: IEA
    Author: Sir Alan Walters
    Country: United States
    "Lady Thatcher's former economic advisor considers the performance of these two international institutions on their fiftieth anniversaries, and considers them in need of abolition or at least major reform." (Also available online for free) (£1.00, 22pp) (1994)

    Should we have faith in central banks?
    Source: IEA
    Author: Otmar Issing
    Country: United States
    "In this Occasional Paper, Professor Otmar Issing, the leading monetary economist and one of Europe's most influential central bankers, argues that price stability is a 'common good' and that it is better in the hands of an independent central bank with a clear price stability mandate." (55pp, £7.50.) (05/13/02)

    Western Europe

    Hayek, currency competition and the European Monetary Union
    Source: IEA
    Author: Otmar Issing
    Country: United States
    "In the 1999 IEA Hayek Memorial Lecture, reprinted in Occasional Paper 111, Otmar Issing, the eminent monetary economist and one of Europe's most influential central bankers, discusses currency competition and European Monetary Union." Includes critiques by Professors Lawrence H. White and Roland Vaubel." (64pp, £4.00) (4/00)


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