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Running the World's Markets: The Governance of Financial Infrastructure

By: Ruben Lee

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ISBN-13: 9780691133539 (ISBN-10: 0691133530)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 30 Dec 2010

Filed In: Political economy

The efficiency of financial markets depends on the operation of core infrastructure - exchanges, central counter-parties, and central securities depositories. This book examines how markets are, and should be, run. It evaluates the similarities and differences between exchanges, central counter-parties, and central securities depositories.

New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort

By: Perry Mehrling

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ISBN-13: 9780691143989 (ISBN-10: 0691143986)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 21 Dec 2010

Filed In: Economic history, Banking

Presents the innovative principles needed to address the instability of the markets and to rebuild our financial system. This book traces the evolution of ideas and institutions in the American banking system since the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913. It explains how the Fed took classic central banking wisdom from Britain and Europe.

Corporate Governance: Promises Kept, Promises Broken

By: Jonathan R. Macey

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ISBN-13: 9780691148021 (ISBN-10: 0691148023)
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 21 Dec 2010

Filed In: Corporate finance

Even in the wake of the biggest financial crash of the postwar era, the United States continues to rely on Securities and Exchange Commission oversight and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This book argues that less government regulation - not more - is what's needed to ensure that managers of public companies keep their promises to investors.

Theory of Taxation and Public Economics

By: Louis Kaplow

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ISBN-13: 9780691148212 (ISBN-10: 069114821X)
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 21 Dec 2010

Filed In: Economic theory & philosophy, Taxation

Presents a unified conceptual framework for analyzing taxation. This book contains an analysis that generates novel results, including some that overturn long-standing conventional wisdom. By applying this common methodology to disparate subjects, it produces significant cross-fertilization and yields solutions to previously intractable problems.

Bach Flower Inspirational Cards

By: Frederick G. Harmon, Knight A. Kiplinger, Harmon

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ISBN-13: 9780738721842 (ISBN-10: 0738721840)
Format: Undefined
Publication Date: 01 Dec 2010

Filed In: Alternative therapies, healing & health

Plight of the Fortune Tellers: Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently

By: Riccardo Rebonato

R 268.00
R 241.20

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ISBN-13: 9780691148175 (ISBN-10: 0691148171)
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 21 Nov 2010

Filed In: Financial crises & disasters, Banking, Business strategy

Argues that we must restore genuine decision-making to our financial planning. Presenting a financial model that uses probability, experimental psychology, and decision theory, this title challenges us to rethink the standard wisdom about risk management.

How Big Banks Fail, and What to Do About it

By: Darrell Duffie

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ISBN-13: 9780691148854 (ISBN-10: 0691148856)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 21 Nov 2010

Filed In: Financial crises & disasters, Banking

Dealer banks - that is, large banks that deal in securities and derivatives, such as J P Morgan and Goldman Sachs - are of a size and complexity that sharply distinguish them from typical commercial banks. This book examines how these banks collapse and how we can prevent the need to bail them out.

E-Myth Accountant: Why Most Accounting Practices Dont Work and What to Do about It

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ISBN-13: 9781441710840 (ISBN-10: 1441710841)
Format: CD-Audio