Money in a Free Society
Title | Money in a Free Society PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Congdon |
Publisher | Encounter Books |
Pages | 522 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1594035245 |
"Money in a Free Society" contains 18 provocative essays from Congdon, an influential economic adviser to the Thatcher government in the U.K. and one of the world's leading monetary commentators. He calls for a return to stable money growth and sound public finances, and argues that these remain the best answers to the problems facing modern capitalism.
Money and Society
Title | Money and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Axel T. Paul |
Publisher | IIPPE |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020-11-20 |
Genre | Money |
ISBN | 9780745341965 |
An introduction to the sociology of money, foregrounding how money embodies social relations
Foundations of a Free Society
Title | Foundations of a Free Society PDF eBook |
Author | Eamonn Butler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Economic policy |
ISBN | 9780255366915 |
Basic Income
Title | Basic Income PDF eBook |
Author | Philippe Van Parijs |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2017-03-20 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0674978099 |
“Powerful as well as highly engaging—a brilliant book.” —Amartya Sen A Times Higher Education Book of the Week It may sound crazy to pay people whether or not they’re working or even looking for work. But the idea of providing an unconditional basic income to everyone, rich or poor, active or inactive, has long been advocated by such major thinkers as Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, and John Kenneth Galbraith. Now, with the traditional welfare state creaking under pressure, it has become one of the most widely debated social policy proposals in the world. Basic Income presents the most acute and fullest defense of this radical idea, and makes the case that it is our most realistic hope for addressing economic insecurity and social exclusion. “They have set forth, clearly and comprehensively, what is probably the best case to be made today for this form of economic and social policy.” —Benjamin M. Friedman, New York Review of Books “A rigorous analysis of the many arguments for and against a universal basic income, offering a road map for future researchers.” —Wall Street Journal “What Van Parijs and Vanderborght bring to this topic is a deep understanding, an enduring passion and a disarming optimism.” —Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post
A Cash-Free Society
Title | A Cash-Free Society PDF eBook |
Author | Kai A. Olsen |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2018-08-10 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1442227435 |
Information technology is changing the world through automation, by bypassing middlemen and by digitization. We see dramatic effects today in the music industry, going from CDs to streaming, in newspapers, from paper to online, and in the banking industry, from branch offices to the Internet. One of the most fundamental changes is the replacement of physical cash, money and coins, by bits in a computer. A Cash-Free Society is about this dramatic change. It shows the advantages and disadvantages and discuss how we – consumers, businesses and the society -can prepare for a new world where cash is no longer king. Banks are closing down branch offices and removing cash services. Customers wishing to withdraw money as cash are directed to ATMs. But the number of ATMs is declining. Mobile payments, either for paying bills or for person to person transactions will be the last nail in the coffin for cash . These changes are fed by the overwhelming advantages, both for consumers and businesses, to electronic payments. In the countries that lead this transition to a digital economy, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, nearly all transactions, both in volume and number, are digital. Today less than 3 percent of consumer payments are in cash in Norway. Though there are some disadvantages, there are clear benefits: cheaper transactions, less crime, simpler tax processing and it will become more difficult to operate in the black-market economy.
What Has Government Done to Our Money?
Title | What Has Government Done to Our Money? PDF eBook |
Author | Murray Newton Rothbard |
Publisher | Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Currency question |
ISBN | 1610163060 |
Money in a Free Society
Title | Money in a Free Society PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Congdon |
Publisher | Encounter Books |
Pages | 522 |
Release | 2011-11-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 159403544X |
In the 15 years to mid-2007 the world economy enjoyed unparalleled stability (the so-called “Great Moderation”), with steady growth and low inflation. But the period since mid-2007 (“the Great Recession”) has seen the worst macroeconomic turmoil since the 1930s. A dramatic plunge in trade, output and employment in late 2008 and 2009 has been followed by an unconvincing recovery. How is the lurch from stability to instability to be explained? What are the intellectual origins of the policy mistakes that led to the Great Recession? What theories motivated policies in the USA and other leading nations? Which ideas about economic policy have proved right? And which have been wrong? Money in a Free Society contains 18 provocative essays on these questions from Tim Congdon, an influential economic adviser to the Thatcher government in the UK and one of the world’s leading monetary commentators. Congdon argues that academic economists and policy-makers have betrayed the intellectual legacy of both Keynes and Friedman. These two great economists believed – if in somewhat different ways – in the need for steady growth in the quantity of money. But Keynes has been misunderstood as advocating big rises in public spending and large budget deficits as the only way to defeat recession. That has led under President Obama to an unsustainable explosion in American public debt. Meanwhile the Fed has ignored extreme volatility in the rate of money growth, contrary to the central message of Friedman’s analytical work. In his 1923 Tract on Monetary Reform Keynes said, “The Individualistic Capitalism of today, precisely because it entrusts saving to the individual investor and production to the individual employer, presumes a stable measuring-rod of value, and cannot be efficient--perhaps cannot survive--without one.” In Money in a Free Society Congdon calls for a return to stable money growth and sound public finances, and argues that these remain the best answers to the problems facing modern capitalism.