Money and the Market
Essays on Free Banking
1st Edition
Published on 23. November 2000
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-415-24212-7 (ISBN)
Description
Kevin Dowd asserts that state intervention into financial and monetary systems has failed, and that we would be better off if financial markets were left to regulate themselves. This collection will appeal to students, researchers and policy makers in the monetary and financial area.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
552 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-24212-7 (9780415242127)
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Person
Kevin Dowd is Professor of Financial Risk Management at the University of Nottingham Business School and adjunct scholar at the CATO Institute in Washington.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 The theory of financial laissez-faire; Chapter 2 The case for financial laissez-faire; Chapter 3 Bank capital adequacy versus deposit insurance; Chapter 4 Does asymmetric information justify bank capital adequacy regulation?; Chapter 5 Competitive banking, bankers' clubs, and bank regulation; Chapter 6 The invisible hand and the evolution of the monetary system; Chapter 7 Are free markets the cause of financial instability?; Part 2 The monetary regime; Chapter 8 A proposal to end inflation; Chapter 9 Reply to Hillier; Chapter 10 Using futures prices to control inflation; Chapter 11 The 'compensated dollar' revisited; Chapter 12 Money and the market; Part 3 Policy issues; Chapter 13 Two arguments for the restriction of international capital flows, K. Alec Chrystal; Chapter 14 Monetary policy in the twenty-first century; Chapter 15 Reflections on the future of gold; Chapter 16 Too big to fail? Long-Term Capital Management and the Federal Reserve; Chapter 17 Paternalism fails again, Jimmy M. Hinchliffe;