Money and Banking
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The Rise of Blockchains
Nir Kshetri
Timely and invigorating, this book explores how blockchain technology is disrupting economies and transforming societies. It offers detailed insights into the synergistic and complementary effects of blockchain and other new and emerging...eBook:Find out more£20.76
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A Modern Guide to Financial Shocks and Crises
Edited by Giovanni Ferri, Vincenzo D’Apice
Offering a comprehensive guide to financial shocks and crises, this book explores their increasing occurrence in current market economies, as well as their power to wrench the macroeconomy. The book discusses three critical questions: wh...eBook:Find out more£32.76
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Credit and Crisis from Marx to Minsky
Jan Toporowski
This timely book studies the economic theories of credit cycles and disturbances in the 20th century, presenting a nuanced view of the role of finance in the economy after the financial crash of 2008. Focusing on the work of economists ...eBook:Find out more£19.96
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Islamic Finance
Hans Visser
In this extensively updated third edition, Hans Visser explores the ideas and concepts that drive and shape Islamic finance. This incisive book reviews the products, institutions and markets offered by Islamic finance in the modern marke...eBook:Find out more£26.36
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Optimal Monetary Policy under Uncertainty, Second Edition
Richard T. Froyen, Alfred V. Guender
This book provides a thorough survey of the model-based literature on optimal monetary in a stochastic setting. The survey begins with the literature of the 1970s which focused on the information problem in policy design and extends to t...eBook:Find out more£32.76
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Banks and Finance in Modern Macroeconomics
Bruna Ingrao, Claudio Sardoni
The world financial crisis of 2007–2008 dramatically showed the importance of credit and financial relations for the efficient working of the economy. For a long time mainstream macroeconomics ignored these aspects and concentrated only ...eBook:Find out more£27.16
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Understanding the Blockchain Economy
Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson, Jason Potts
Blockchains are the distributed ledger technology that powers Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But blockchains can be used for more than the transfer of tokens – they are a significant new economic infrastructure. This book offers the...eBook:Find out more£23.96
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A Research Agenda for Financial Inclusion and Microfinance
Edited by Marek Hudon, Marc Labie, Ariane Szafarz
How can financial services, such as credit, deposit accounts, financial transfers, and insurance be provided to people in need? This challenging and complex issue has been a topic of interest for the international aid community for decad...eBook:Find out more£23.96
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Islamic Finance
Hans Visser
This thoroughly updated and revised second edition analyses the ideas behind Islamic finance, the forms Islamic finance has taken in practice and the tension between the two that may occasionally arise. Along with an expanded section on ...eBook:Find out more£24.76
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What is Wrong with Islamic Economics?
Muhammad Akram Khan
What is Wrong with Islamic Economics? takes an objective look at the state of the art in Islamic economics and finance. It analyses reasons for perceived stagnation and also suggests a way forward.eBook:Find out more£39.16
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Finance in an Age of Austerity
Johnston Birchall
This is a book in search of an alternative to the discredited investor-owned banks that have brought the rich countries into crisis and the world economy into a long period of austerity. It finds customer-owned banks – credit unions, co-...eBook:Find out more£26.36
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The Islamic Debt Market for Sukuk Securities
Edited by Mohamed Ariff, Munawar Iqbal, Shamsher Mohamad
The relatively new sukuk (or Islamic debt securities) markets have grown to more than US $800 billion over the past decade, and continue to grow at a rate of around 20-30 per cent per year. Arguably the first of its kind, this path-break...eBook:Find out more£29.56