Reforming Money and Finance

A new edition of the nontechnical undergraduate text analyzing current issues relating to monetary reform and financial restructuring. Using interviews with economists and a selection of essays with supporting commentary, the volume links money creation to credit financing and financial instability providing a broad treatment of money and banking systems and regulations, the most recent debates in monetary policy and their impact on financial instability, and detailing the globalization of finance with an emphasis on the emergence of a new monetary regime. Includes tables and graphs. Paper edition (771-2), $28.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR