David Jones

Understanding Central Banking

The New Era of Activism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Employing a light and lively writing style, the book starts with the history of central banking in England and then shifts focus to the United States, explains in detail how the Fed works, and covers the Fed's unprecedented activities to prevent the Great Recession from spiraling into the Greatest Depression. The final chapter presents a detailed scorecard for each of the Fed chairmen over the last 40 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9780765642516
• ISBN-10: 0765642514
• Artikelnr.: 39530387

Autorenporträt

Other works by David Lee Jones include Darkside of the Planet, MoriaVaratu and The War of the Third Awakening. Jones also is the front man in a band called Wide Open. You can find information at www.reverbnation.com/wideopen9 or www.facebook.com/thewideopenband

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction  1. History and Purpose of Central Banking  2. Post-World War
II Macroeconomic Policy  3. Contemporary Federal Reserve Policy   4.
Globalization, Deregulation, Mounting Global Capital Flows  5. New Activism
by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan  6. Financial
Crises  7. Asset Price Bubbles  8. How the U.S. Central Bank Dealt with a
Disastrous Credit Crisis  9. An Evaluation of Contemporary Fed Chairmen 
10. Conclusions