"A front-line industry insider's look at the financial technology explosion The FINTECH Book is your primary guide to the financial technology revolution, and the disruption, innovation and opportunity therein. Written by prominent thought leaders in the European, UK and Hong Ko…
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods that is, long before the invention of coins …
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods that is, long before the invention of coins …
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Section One -- Chapter 1: What Is Financial Technology? -- Technology's Impact on Financial Services -- What Is FinTech and Who Are the Players? -- Why the Hype for FinTech? -- Why Is FinTech Potentially So Important to Society?…
The Theory of Monetary Institutions analyzes the often overlooked - but fundamental - questions about monetary policy regimes: How and why have monetary institutions - central banks, clearinghouses, commercial banks, and money itself - evolved into their present forms? What are …
Introduction : we the capitalists -- Incentives gone wild -- The return of ownership -- Not with my money -- The new geometry of regulation -- The queen's question -- People's pensions, commonsense banks -- Capitalism : a brief owner's manual
A call to reboot capitalism and preserve $85 trillion in retirement savings for their owners--not for use as the financial industry's ATM. Each year we pay billions in fees to those who run our financial system. The money comes from our bank accounts, our pensions, our borrowing…
Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system? In Unsettled Account, Richard Grossman takes …
This text has been specially written to meet the needs of students who require a rigorous grounding in financial economic theory, combined with institutional and policy discussion relevant to the "real world" economics of contemporary Europe. With a strong, unifying theoretical …
The 4th edition of The Economics of Money, Banking and Finance is written to meet the needs of students requiring a rigorous grounding in financial economics theory, combined with institutional and policy discussion relevant to the real world' of contemporary Europe.--
