This book unifies deeply related topics in money and banking. By continually building on the assumption that economic actors are maximizers, it explains how monetary and financial services, as well as related governance mechanisms, influence economic performance. In this manner, Money, Financial...

Professors Calomiris and Haber paint a bleak picture – that is, historically populist political bargains over U.S. banking policy have become so entrenched that the most severe systemic crisis in memory, and accompanying Great Recession, may do little to spark effective policy reforms. Even if...

Dino Falaschetti and Michael Orlando unify the treatment of the many deeply related topics in money and banking in this wide-ranging book. By continually building on the assumption that economic actors are maximizers, they explain how monetary and financial services, as well as related...

Dino Falaschetti and Michael Orlando unify the treatment of the many deeply related topics in money and banking in this wide-ranging book. By continually building on the assumption that economic actors are maximizers, they explain how monetary and financial services, as well as related...

Being careful about the potential for endogeneity bias, I find robust evidence that "institutions for private property" share a more fundamental relationship with health expenditures than does national income. This research should interest a wide audience. First, health scholars may be...