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As Americans cope with the social and industrial changes wrought by the computer age, we seem ready to view with more sympathy the men who shaped the similarly disruptive economic revolution at the turn of the last century. Less than a year after Titan, Ron Chernow’s sweeping [...]
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“This book reveals and discusses the link that still exists between money and gold.” (Finance & Management Faculty, October, 2008)
“This book reveals and discusses the link that still exists between money and gold.” (Finance & Management Faculty, October, 2008)
One of the foremost financial [...]
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From Publishers Weekly
The author of Minding Mr. Market presents a formidable and funny history of financial credit and the American marketplace. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The 1980s were the troubling culmination of two trends [...]
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For centuries, money was viewed as tokens with intrinsic value, like gold or silver coins. Paper currencies were often used as substitutes, but they were only accepted on the promise they could be converted on demand into “hard money.” The era of hard money ended [...]
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Full text of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), and implementing regulations Analysis of BSA provisions, with special emphasis on USA PATRIOT Act provisions, as well as OFAC’s sanction programs and money laundering Full text of agency issuances Compliance Notes will highlight compliance [...]
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This excellent new book from one of the brightest young economists, Giuseppe Fontana, involves a compendium of issues surrounding uncertainty, money and time. Fontana shines a Post Keynesian light onto statements and claims made by well-known neo-classical authors and as such leaves us with an interesting and informative book to be [...]
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“Exactly what any busy person needs - the facts at your fingertips! Never get caught out again when a conversation starts on the big issues of our time.” Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2 & Panorama.”A brilliant wheeze. The essence of the debate in a very [...]
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International in its appeal, this book uses high-level and multi-theoretical analyses involving psychological and sociological theories to explore the events of Nick Leeson’s employment with Barings’ in Singapore in 1992 to Barings’ collapse in 1995.Giving readers valuable insights into organizational behaviour analysis and how and why organizations fail, it is a [...]
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“To understand the industry, here is help…” (The Hindu Business Line, 16th September 2004)
“To understand the industry, here is help…” (The Hindu Business Line, 16th September 2004)
It is not uncommon to meet professionals in financial services who have only a vague idea of [...]
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Provides a unique comparative survey of financial systems in Europe and the US, unified under a rigorous theoretical framework.
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